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Photographs by Martin Jenkinson
Picket wearing a joke police helmet talking to Police Officers without identification numbers at Orgeave during the 1984-5 miners' strike [Martin Jenkinson]

IN THE four decades before his death at the age of 64 in 2012,  Sheffield-based photojournalist Martin Jenkinson chronicled everyday lives in all their drama and detail and that's very much in evidence in the exhibition Who We Are in the city's Weston Park Museum.

Maxine Duffus, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport's first black woman bus driver (Pic: Martin Jenkinson)

The first major retrospective of Jenkinson’s work, it celebrates what was a  remarkable career and  includes over 80 of his most compelling images.   

1,500 People queued for up to two hours for 50 jobs at a new restaurant (Pic: Martin Jenkinson)
Woman feeding a reluctant child, Italy (Pic: Martin Jenkinson)
An unknown photographer (Pic: Martin Jenkinson)
Police arrest picket at BSC Tinsley Park during one day strike, 22 October 1982 (Pic: Martin Jenkinson)
Nottingham Miners waiting outside the NUM Special Delegate Conference being held at the City Hall in Sheffield, 19 April 1984 (Pic: Martin Jenkinson)
First National Women's Support Groups Rally, Civic Hall, Barnsley, 12 May 1984 (Pic: Martin Jenkinson)
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