Tom Wood, The DPA Work

The DPA Work

Tom Wood

Publisher
Steidl
Year
2026
ISBN
978-3-95829-347-2
Specifications
Softcover in an archive box
20.5 x 25.5 cm
424 pages
322 images
English
Four-color process

Beginning in 1985 the Manchester-based Documentary Photography Archive (DPA) commissioned photographers to record aspects of British society in the north of England. Tom Wood’s The DPA Work explores the life and demise of two major institutions near Liverpool, Rainhill Psychiatric Hospital and Cammell Laird shipyard.

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