Coal mining's demise and those left behind captured in photographs
In the 40 yeas Roger has been taking pictures of miners, attitudes towards coal have shifted and there has been a move towards greener energy."I'm sorry to see the pits gone... the communities were built around the mines," said Roger.said former mining towns and villages across the UK have still not recovered, a generation on from pit closures.
He has made many trips to the US, including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, to capture how those communities are responding to the closure of their pits.Miners comfort each other at a party held following the 2015 closure of Kellingley Colliery, North Yorkshire, the last deep coal mine in the UK
Closer to home, in 2015, he captured the closure of the last deep coal mine in the UK - Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire."It was a difficult situation, you're photographing people losing their jobs and jobs they love," said Roger.
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