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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture corrrespondent

Edinburgh show will display street photographer’s never-before-seen work

Robert Blomfield’s photograph Forth Road Bridge, Through Telescope, 1965
Robert Blomfield’s 1965 photograph Forth Road Bridge, Through Telescope. Photograph: Estate of Robert Blomfield

Previously unseen work by a photographer who captured life in Edinburgh and has been compared to the great Henri Cartier-Bresson is to go on display at an exhibition in the city where he lived and worked.

Robert Blomfield moved to Edinburgh from Yorkshire and studied medicine in the city while living a second life as a pioneering street photographer who shifted between shooting university students, locals and the landscape of the Scottish capital.

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