"If you can't find a photograph within ten yards of where you are, you're not looking hard enough". Paul Haley has been a professional photographer all his working life. As the youngest ever Senior Photographer at Soldier magazine he was posted to the South Atlantic to document the Falklands War of 1982. He recorded more than 2000 images, now conserved in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, London. The museum's Head of Photographs, Helen Mavin, included some of Paul's photographs in the recently published book War Photographers (ISBN 978-1-912423-66-8).
In this Radio Walk, Paul Haley guided Jonathan Kempster around his windswept and rainy hometown of Morley, Leeds, demonstrating that there is an inspiring image to be found around every corner. 

(A stereo recording - listen on headphones if you can.)

Paul's life story was recorded by the IWM's oral history unit and is conserved in the museum's sound collection under catalogue number 37195.

Title image © The Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, 2023

https://shop.iwm.org.uk/p/29017/War-Photographers---IWM-Photo-Collection
https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/blavatnik-art-film-and-photography-galleries

Radio Walks Podcast - Interview with Paul Haley

Oral Historian and Audio Journalist, Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, BBC Radio, Freelance. 
Visiting Oral Historian at Chiltern Open Air Museum (COAM).
Member of Institute of Professional Sound, National Union of Journalists, Oral History Society, Subject Specialist Network (War & Conflict), International Association of Sound Archives.

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