John Bulmer

Bulmer was born on 28 February 1938 in Herefordshire,[http://www.chrisbeetlesfinephotographs.com/artists/bulmer-john-born-1938.html Page about John Bulmer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207133340/http://www.chrisbeetlesfinephotographs.com/artists/bulmer-john-born-1938.html |date=7 December 2012 }}, Chris Beetles Fine Photographs. Accessed 10 February 2013. the grandson of the founder of the Bulmer cider company."[http://herefordshire.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/sculptor-angela-conner-of-monnington-court-herefordshire-artist-art-18095/ Sculptor Angela Conner of Monnington Court, Herefordshire]", Herefordshire and Wye Valley Life, 19 February 2010. Accessed 10 February 2013.Martin Wainwright, "[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/feb/02/john-bulmer-photograph-north-colour John Bulmer: A photographer who captured the north's true colours]", The Guardian, 2 February 2010. Accessed 10 February 2013. He started photography when young. Although his earliest interest in it was primarily as a technology (he even built his own enlarger),[Grant Scott], "[http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/Magazine/Photographer-Profiles/Reportage-Special-The-Not-so-swinging-sixties John Bulmer interviewed] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107060842/http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/Magazine/Photographer-Profiles/Reportage-Special-The-Not-so-swinging-sixties |date=7 November 2012 }}", professionalphotographer.co.uk, 10 August 2010. Accessed 10 February 2013. The website fails to name the author. The story was also published as "The not-so-swinging sixties" in Professional Photographer magazine, and a small reproduction from this within the web page shows that the author was Grant Scott. he was a great admirer of Henri Cartier-Bresson as a teenager.{{cite journal |last1=Hamilton|first1=Peter|year=2013|title=Northern Exposures|periodical=British Journal of Photography|volume=160|issue=7808|pages=64–69|publisher=Incisive Financial Publishing Limited}}

Bulmer studied engineering at Cambridge, where his interest in photography deepened. While still a student he had photographs published in Varsity as well as a magazine he co-founded, Image;"[http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/pictures-John-Bulmer/story-11255550-detail/story.html The pictures of John Bulmer] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130421125255/http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/pictures-John-Bulmer/story-11255550-detail/story.html |date=21 April 2013 }}", This is Bristol, 30 May 2009. Accessed 10 February 2013. and did photostories for the Daily Express, Queen, and (on night climbing) Life. He also worked as an assistant to Larry Burrows and Burt Glinn. The Life story led to his expulsion from Cambridge six weeks before his finals.

On his expulsion, Bulmer attempted to get a job with the Daily Express; after three days of repeated attempts, the newspaper gave him one. He stayed for two years. After this he worked on assignments for a number of magazines: first in black and white, for Queen, Town, and Time and Tide.Godfrey Smith, foreword to The North (Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2012), p. 3. His ambition then was photography as journalism:

I wasn't interested in art photography, I was interested in photography as journalism, the last thing I wanted to do was put my photographs on the walls of galleries; I wanted them in magazines.

Thanks in part to a wave of creative people from the north of England, the north was at the time enjoying a vogue in the south. Bulmer's first assignment there was in 1960, for Town, to spend three days photographing the fast-declining Lancashire town of Nelson and compare it with the fast-growing Watford. He found the experience eye-opening and enjoyable.John Bulmer, The North (Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2012), p. 5.

By this time, Bulmer had evolved his own style:

intimate close shots of people on the streets and public places done with a wide-angle lens interspersed with compressed views of architecture, industry and townscape with a longer lens. The long lens was also used to isolate a figure on the streets.Bulmer liked to work with a 35 mm camera, and his favourite combination of focal lengths was a 28 or a 35 mm lens, plus either a 105 or a 180 mm lens. Bulmer as quoted in Hamilton, "Northern exposures".

In addition to Cartier-Bresson, Bulmer admired the work in black and white of Bill Brandt, Larry Burrows, William Klein, Mark Kauffman, and particularly Eugene Smith; but he was asked to work in colour for the Sunday Times Colour Section from its launch in 1962.Andy Manning, "[http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/the-arts/art/changing-view-from-up-north-1-5355144 Changing view from up north]", Yorkshire Post, 28 January 2013. Accessed 10 February 2013. At the time, most photojournalists looked down on colour photography as commercial; and colour film was difficult to work with as it was slower than black and white and had less exposure latitude.

In 1965, Bulmer first photographed the north of England in colour, for the Sunday Times magazine.Tearsheets for this story, "The North", can be seen [http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/sunday-times/north/index.html here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818195621/http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/sunday-times/north/index.html |date=18 August 2011 }} within Bulmer's website. Accessed 10 February 2013. Colour photography was "a medium in which Bulmer was the British pioneer", far ahead of such photographers as William Eggleston and Martin Parr. Using colour for the north of England was Bulmer's idea, as was the choice of winter or wet weather, when colour film was yet harder to use.Moreover, the only film whose use was practicable was Ektachrome-X, whose colour balance shifted with time and was unsuitable when the film was either old or very new. Hamilton, "Northern exposures".

Grant Scott has described the results:

Saturated but muted colours combined with [Bulmer's] compositional talent to create images which are time capsules as contemporary today as they were then.

The priorities of the Sunday Times Magazine changed in the 1970s; its then-new editor Hunter Davies explained them to Bulmer as "crime, middle-class living and fashion". These were of little interest to Bulmer, who left in 1973 after a final story about North Korea.Terry Grimley, "[http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-art/2009/06/09/john-bulmer-photographic-exhibition-opens-in-hereford-65233-23825001/ John Bulmer photographic exhibition opens in Hereford] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829182234/http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-art/2009/06/09/john-bulmer-photographic-exhibition-opens-in-hereford-65233-23825001/ |date=29 August 2012 }}", Birmingham Post, 9 June 2009. Accessed 19 February 2013. However, he continued photography for other publications, making his last story of the north of England in 1976, for the British edition of Geo.

Bulmer later photographed celebrities.

The editor of Town, David Hughes, introduced Bulmer to his wife, Mai Zetterling, with whom he then occasionally worked as cinematographer. For some time, Bulmer combined photography with work in film, which was refreshingly different and also promised an escape from the increasingly limited interests of the news magazines. His start in television documentary film came suddenly. When he managed to obtain a visa for Burma, the Sunday Times was uninterested in any story there, and so he

went to the BBC and said, "I've never shot a film in my life before, but I've got this visa, will you give me some money?" And they said yes and that's how I came to make my first film.Carey Gough, "[http://herefordphotofest.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/john-bulmer-interview-part-two/ John Bulmer interview part 2]", Hereford Photography Festival blog, 19 May 2009. Accessed 18 February 2013.

As well as the BBC, Bulmer also filmed for the Discovery Channel. For the latter, "Bulmer focused on little-known tribal groups, but treated them as human interest stories rather than exercises in the exotic": a perspective that can also be seen in his early photography.

As Bulmer moved away from photography to film, his earlier photographic work was overlooked. Martin Harrison credits a 1983 exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery, British Photography 1955–65: The Master Craftsmen in Print (curated by Sue Davies), with saving the work of Bulmer (as well as Graham Finlayson and others) from obscurity.Martin Harrison, preface to Young Meteors: British Photojournalism, 1957–1965 (London: Cape, 1998; {{ISBN|0-224-05129-6}}). Most of a 17-page "Colour Section" within Harrison's own 1998 book Young Meteors: British Photojournalism, 1957–1965 is devoted to Bulmer and his colour work of the north of England.

Bulmer's career in film continued to the mid-2000s, when he retired and turned to digitising and cataloguing his earlier photographs.

Bulmer is married to the sculptor Angela Conner. The couple live at Monnington on Wye in a house, Monnington Court, that Bulmer bought in the 1960s and where they breed and train Morgan horses.

Dir, directed; pho, photographed; pro, produced.More details, as well as some short excerpts, are available in [http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/film-biography/ this page about films] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120045048/http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/film-biography/ |date=20 January 2013 }} on Bulmer's website. Accessed 10 February 2013.

• The Artist's Horse. 20 minutes, for The South Bank Show, 1978. Dir, pho, pro[https://web.archive.org/web/20120713120506/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6db571a0 The Artist's Horse], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Beehives and Runaway Wives. For the Discovery Channel, 2002. Dir, pho"[http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/cinema/film/4220340.Award_winning_John_Bulmer_at_Borderlines/ Beehives and runaway wives to be screened] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130411020428/http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/cinema/film/4220340.Award_winning_John_Bulmer_at_Borderlines/ |date=11 April 2013 }}", Hereford Times, 20 March 2009. Accessed 10 February 2013."Ethiopian Films", in [https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/22828_Booklet.pdf What's On, March–April 2008] (PDF), British Museum. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Bull Magic. For Under the Sun (BBC) and National Geographic, 1994. Dir, pho, pro[http://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/bull-magic-15/film Under the Sun] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816061358/http://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/bull-magic-15/film |date=16 August 2011 }}, Borderlines Film Festival, 2013. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Dances with Llamas. 50 minutes, for Under the Sun (BBC), 1997. Dir, pho, pro[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fyynb Dances with Llamas], BBC. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Empty Quarter. 50 minutes, for Journeys (BBC), 1996. Dir, pho[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140817111226/https://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7f5732a7 Empty Quarter], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Fat Fiancees. For the Discovery Channel, 2005. Dir, pho"[http://www.ziare.com/queen/sibiu/logodnicele-grase-78386 Logodnicele grase]", ziare.com, 22 February 2007. {{in lang|ro}} Accessed 10 February 2013."[http://2007.rgnpress.ro/component/option,com_ab_calendar/month,02/year,2007/day,22/Itemid,1/ 'Fat Fiancees', la Cinemateca Astra Film] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033545/http://2007.rgnpress.ro/component/option,com_ab_calendar/month,02/year,2007/day,22/Itemid,1/ |date=4 March 2016 }}", Romanian Global News, 22 February 2007. {{in lang|ro}} Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Finite Oceans. 1995.[http://www.tcmuk.tv/movie_database_results.php?action=title&id=460604 Finite Oceans] at Turner Classic Movies. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• House of the Spirits. For the Discovery Channel. Dir, pho[http://www.humo.be/tv-gids/programma/966675/house-of-the-spirits-simatalu-of-sumatra House of the Spirits], humo.be.{{in lang|nl}} Accessed 10 February 2013.
• How Does It Feel?. Pictures that Move, 1976. Pho[https://web.archive.org/web/20140815110558/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6bdec6a7 How Does It Feel?], BFI. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Månen är en grön ost. 72 minutes, Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet, 1977. Pho[http://sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=16408 Månen är en grön ost (1977)], Swedish Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Mud and Water Man. For the BBC, 1973. Pho[https://web.archive.org/web/20120714005001/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b699d3abd Mud and Water Man], BFI. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• A Mysterious Death. 49 minutes, for the BBC, 1999. Dir, pho[http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9526697 Catalogue entry for A Mysterious Death], Stanford University libraries. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Now Is the Hour. 1970. Dir[https://archive.today/20130423190912/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b74e6f2d4 Now Is the Hour], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• The Painter and the Fighter. For Survival (Anglia), 1996. Dir, pho[https://archive.today/20130423185001/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/544790 The Painter and the Fighter], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Queen of the Elephants. 90 minutes, for the Discovery Channel, 1994. Pho[http://msc.opac.marmot.org/Record/.b15144318 Catalogue entry for Queen of the Elephants] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214745/http://msc.opac.marmot.org/Record/.b15144318 |date=3 March 2016 }}, Colorado Mesa University library. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• The Search for Shangri-La. 50 minutes, for the BBC and PBS. Dir, pho
• Stick Fights and Lip Plates. 50 minutes, for the Discovery Channel. Dir, pho"[http://www.ludlowadvertiser.co.uk/leisure/5025835.print/ The Playhouse Cinema at Leominster Community Centre presents a selection of films]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}", The Ludlow and Tenbury Wells Advertiser, 25 February 2010. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Sunday Pursuit (or Love at First Sight). 25 minutes, 1990. Pho"[http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?itemid=24768&type=MOVIE&iv=PdfGen Love at First Sight. Sunday Pursuit]" (PDF), Swedish Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• The Tide of War. 50 minutes, for National Geographic, 1991. Pho[https://archive.today/20130423185302/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7b248ecc The Tide of War], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Up North. 1970. Dir[https://archive.today/20130423190143/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b781c578c Up North], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Vincent the Dutchman. 50/52/60 minutes,The sources cited here disagree on the exact length. for Omnibus, 1972.John Albert Walker, Arts TV: A History of Arts Television in Britain (London: J. Libbey, 1993; {{ISBN|0861964357}}), p. 58. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wYjN74Ej-JUC&pg=PA58 Here] at Google Books; accessed 18 February 2013.[http://www.festival-cinema-nordique.asso.fr/info_film.php?id=505 Data for Vincent the Dutchman], Festival Cinéma Nordique. Accessed 18 February 2013.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150922025744/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7db920d7 Vincent the Dutchman], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013. (Winner of a BAFTA award for "Television: Specialised Programme" in 1973.[http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Vincent+the+Dutchman&=Search Database search result], BAFTA website. Accessed 10 February 2013.)
• The Witchdoctor's New Bride. 50 minutes, for the Discovery Channel, 2005. Dir, pho[https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin%3FA3%3Dind05%26L%3DANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS%26E%3Dbase64%26P%3D9654088%26B%3D------_%253D_NextPart_001_01C5669C.609213B0%26T%3Dapplication%252Fmsword%3B%2520name%3D%2522FestivalflyerB%2BW.doc Festival flyer] (DOC file). JISCMail. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• Women of the Yellow Earth. 50 minutes, 1994. Dir, pho[http://archive.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/2010/events_women.shtml Women of the Yellow Earth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032712/http://archive.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/2010/events_women.shtml |date=4 March 2016 }}, Borderlines Film Festival, 2010. Accessed 10 February 2013.

• "Hard Sixties: L'Angleterre post-industrielle / Post-Industrial Britain". Galerie David Guirand (Paris), October–December 2008."[http://re-photo.co.uk/?p=501 Hard Sixties]", >Re:Photo, 19 December 2008. Accessed 18 February 2013."[http://www.livresphotos.com/expositions-photos/john-bulmer,1145.html John Bulmer]", Livres photos, 21 November 2008.{{in lang|fr}}. Accessed 18 February 2013.
• "John Bulmer Retrospective". Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, May–June 2009.Bridget Coaker, "[http://persiflage.org.uk/2009/05/19/john-bulmer-retrospective/ John Bulmer retrospective], persiflage.org.uk, 19 May 2009. Accessed 19 February 2013. (Bridget Coaker was the curator of the exhibition.) Then touring: "John Bulmer, a Retrospective: Photographs from 1959–1979", Lucy Bell Gallery (St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex), June–July 2010.[http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/909/49/ Exhibition notice for "John Bulmer, A Retrospective"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130415161719/http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/909/49/ |date=15 April 2013 }}, pro-imaging.org. Accessed 19 February 2013.
• "Northern Soul". National Coal Mining Museum for England (Overton, West Yorkshire), January–April 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.ncm.org.uk/news.asp?id=216 |title="Northern Soul: John Bulmer's images of life and Times in the 1960s" |accessdate=2013-02-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206175812/http://www.ncm.org.uk/news.asp?id=216 |archivedate= 6 February 2010 }}, National Coal Mining Museum for England, 6 January 2010. Accessed by the Wayback Machine on 6 February 2010. Wayback copy accessed 18 February 2013. Touring: West Gallery, Woodhorn Museum (Ashington, Northumberland), December 2010 – March 2011."{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808045517/http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/northern-soul-1/ Exhibition with northern soul worth the wait]}}", Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archives, 8 December 2010. Accessed 18 February 2013. Leeds College of Art, Leeds, April–May 2012."[http://www.leeds-artexhibitions.co.uk/?p=862 John Bulmer] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140317174316/http://www.leeds-artexhibitions.co.uk/?p=862 |date=17 March 2014 }}", Leeds College of Art. Accessed 17 March 2014. Locomotion (National Railway Museum, Shildon, County Durham), September–November 2012."[http://www.nrm.org.uk/AboutUs/PressOffice/PressReleases/2012/August/northernsoul.aspx Northern Soul: An exhibition at Locomotion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808213655/http://www.nrm.org.uk/AboutUs/PressOffice/PressReleases/2012/August/northernsoul.aspx |date=8 August 2014 }}", National Railway Museum, 19 August 2012. Accessed 18 February 2013. Museum of Cannock Chase (Hednesford, Staffordshire), January–March 2013.[http://www.wlct.org/Default.aspx.LocID-0csnew070.RefLocID-0cs00d00a001.Lang-EN.htm "Northern Soul" exhibition notice] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810203942/http://www.wlct.org/Default.aspx.LocID-0csnew070.RefLocID-0cs00d00a001.Lang-EN.htm |date=10 August 2014 }}, WLTC, 14 January 2013. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• "John Bulmer: A Retrospective, Photographs from 1959–79". Hotshoe Gallery (London), April–May 2010.Daniel C. Blight, "[http://www.danielcampbellblight.com/john-bulmer-a-retrospective-1959%E2%80%9379/ John Bulmer: Photographs 1959–79] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208113449/http://www.danielcampbellblight.com/john-bulmer-a-retrospective-1959%E2%80%9379/ |date=8 February 2013 }}", danielcampbellblight.com, 18 April 2010. Accessed 10 February 2013. (Blight was a codirector of the exhibition.)
• "The North". Third Floor Gallery (Cardiff), May–June 2011."[http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/photography%20%26%20film/art355710 The North: John Bulmer's shots capture a moment in time at Third Floor Gallery Cardiff]", Culture24, 6 May 2011. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• "Out of England: Images from Overseas". Art360 Gallery (Hereford), October–November 2011."[http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/9343501.print/ Hereford Photography Festival presents exhibition by John Bulmer]", Surrey Comet, 3 November 2011. Accessed 10 February 2013.[http://www.photofest.org/2011_new/pages/Festival_Exhibitions.html Programme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822072704/http://www.photofest.org/2011_new/pages/Festival_Exhibitions.html |date=22 August 2013 }}, Hereford Photography Festival 2011. Accessed 10 February 2013.
• "Orkney in Colour", Pier Arts Centre (Stromness), June–July 2011."[http://northings.com/2011/06/07/photographic-exhibition-opens-at-the-pier-arts-centre/ Photographic exhibition opens at the Pier Arts Centre]", Northings, 7 June 2011. Accessed 12 February 2013.
• "Britain's Hard 60s: John Bulmer's Colour Photographs of a Changing Britain". Monnow Valley Arts (Walterstone, Herefordshire). April–June 2012.[http://www.monnowvalleyarts.org/documents/JohnBulmer2ppA5lslr.pdf "Britain's Hard 60s" exhibition notice] (PDF), Monnow Valley Arts. Accessed 10 February 2013.

• "British Photography 1955–65: The Master Craftsmen in Print", Photographers' Gallery (London), 1983.
• "The Young Meteors: British Photojournalism 1957–1965." National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (Bradford), July–November 1998; Focus Gallery (London), 1999.
• "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Authentic Moment in British Photography", Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham, November 2012 – February 2013."[https://archive.today/20130419142648/http://www.alumni.nottingham.ac.uk/netcommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=3284 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – a sensational new Lakeside exhibition]", University of Nottingham Alumni Online, 23 October 2012. Accessed 16 February 2013."[https://archive.today/20130505080933/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Actress-open-photo-exhibition-factory-life/story-17176086-detail/story.html Actress to open photo exhibition of factory life]", Nottingham Post, 25 October 2012. Accessed 16 February 2013.

• Northern Soul: John Bulmer's Images of Life and Times in the 1960s. Overton: National Coal Mining Museum for England, 2010. National Coal Mining Museum for England publications, 10. {{ISBN|1872925154}}. The catalogue for an exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
• The North. Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2012. {{ISBN|9781908457080}}.Bluecoat's [https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/the-north/ page about The North].
• Wind of Change. Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1908457226}}.Bluecoat's [https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/wind-of-change/ page about Wind of Change].
• A Very English Village. Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2021. With text by Martin Page. {{ISBN|9781908457639}}.Bluecoat's [https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/a-very-english-village/ page about A Very English Village].

• Hartlepool 1960s. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Edition of 200 copies. Second edition, 2020.Café Royal Books' [https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/john-bulmer-manchester-hartlepool-1960s70s-series-2-books page about Hartlepool 1960s and Manchester 1970s] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028154542/https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/john-bulmer-manchester-hartlepool-1960s70s-series-2-books |date=28 October 2020 }}.
• Manchester 1970s. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Edition of 200 copies. Second edition, 2020.{{cite news|first1=Mark|last1=Pinder|accessdate=2020-08-09|title=Newcastle West End: Elswick to Newburn|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/07/newcastle-west-end-elswick-to-newburn-in-pictures|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 August 2020|issn=0261-3077}}

• The White Tribes of Africa. London: Cape, 1965. New York: Macmillan, 1965. Photographs by Bulmer, text by Richard West.
• The Gringo in Latin America. London: Cape, 1967. Photographs by Bulmer, text by Richard West.
• Martin Harrison. Young Meteors: British Photojournalism, 1957–1965. London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. {{ISBN|0-224-05129-6}}. The catalogue for an exhibition at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (Bradford). pp. 80–93 are devoted to Bulmer.

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• [http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/ John Bulmer's website]
• Carey Gough, "[http://herefordphotofest.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/part-one-of-two-john-bulmer-interview/ Part one of two: John Bulmer interview]", Hereford Photography Festival blog, 9 May 2009.
• Carey Gough, "[http://herefordphotofest.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/john-bulmer-interview-part-two/ John Bulmer interview part 2]", Hereford Photography Festival blog, 19 May 2009.
• "[http://vimeo.com/11883693 John Bulmer Retrospective] (video), Vimeo.
• "[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries/8559733/Miners-mothers-and-mill-girls-capturing-the-changing-North.html Miners, mothers and mill girls: capturing the changing North]" (selection of photographs). The Telegraph.
• "[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/may/28/john-bulmer-photographs-north-england-south-america John Bulmer: photographs from the north of England to South America]" (selection of photographs). The Guardian, 29 May 2009.
• Martin Wainwright, "[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jan/29/john-bulmer-photographs-north North faces: John Bulmer's photographs of life in northern England]" (selection of photographs). The Guardian, 2 February 2010.
• Sophie Haydock, "[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/08/john-bulmer-nettlesworth-colliery-durham-1965-photography My pony was that good, I’d give him my lunch – he was earning the money]". The Guardian, 8 September 2017. "That's me in the picture": "Joseph McQuiggan recalls life as a miner at Nettlesworth Colliery, County Durham in 1965", where Bulmer photographed him.
• [https://www.ffoton.wales/interviews/2018/2/john-bulmer Audio Interview] on Ffoton Wales, October 2017

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