Roger Tiley

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Roger Tiley is a Welsh documentary photographer. His work on documenting the coal mines of Wales and America has been used extensively in publications. Specifically during the mining strikes of 1984.

It has been claimed that Roger Tiley only took photography because he needed to take an extra A level, and his sixth form tutor was short of students for his photography class.

He first worked in Photography as an industrial photographer for Lucas Industries, a large car component company. He spent four years there ad subsequently decided to specialise in the documentary photography.

He studied at the School of Documentary Photography under David Hurn, who has worked for Magnum Photos.

On completion of the course in 1984, Roger worked for a number of national newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Observer. Much of his journalistic work was based on the miners strike in 1984/85.

Because of his work on the miners strike, he was commissioned to produce 'The Valleys Project' one of his best collections of photographs. They are meticulously annotated with context information and encompass every part of the miners lives.

Since the 1980s, Tiley has concentrated on working on commissions for exhibitions, archive collections, television and book publication. Over the past three decades, Tiley has had work exhibited and published regularly in Europe and the USA and is the author of three books.

The commissions include:

Photographing the Welsh descendants living in Pennsylvania and covering extensively the mining communities of West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

He is now also a teacher of A Level Photography at Swansea College, Wales.