Documentary photographer, John Walmsley, will be giving a talk on protest, his working life in photography and his involvement in the Guildford School of Art sit-in, 1968. It takes place at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2pm to 3pm on Friday 11th May 2018 as part of the Time Tunnel Festival.

The photographer, John Walmsley, was a photography student at Guildford School of Art and photographed the student sit-in of 1968. The time Tunnel Festival presents a large-scale blow-up of a photograph of students’ democracy in action and an iconic portrait of John Lennon speaking in support of the students and sacked staff when he and Yoko Ono visited the exhibition of staff work at a London gallery in December 1968.

John Walmsley photographs things that interest him. He is a passionate educationalist. His final year project on A.S.Neill’s democratic school, Summerhill, was published by Penguin Books in 1969.  His shot of Vanessa Redgrave, Tariq Ali and Richard Branson (1968 Grosvenor Square anti-Vietnam war demo) was selected by Baroness Helena Kennedy to be one of a hundred pictures exhibited at the NPG to celebrate portraits of the millennium. John now has 9 photographs in the National Portrait Gallery’s Permanent Collection.