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==Life and career==
Bulmer was born on 28 February 1938 in [[Herefordshire]],<ref name="beetles">[http://www.chrisbeetlesfinephotographs.com/artists/bulmer-john-born-1938.html Page about John Bulmer], Chris Beetles Fine Photographs. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref> the grandson of the founder of the [[H. P. Bulmer|Bulmer cider company]].<ref name="sculptor_ac">"[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.</ref><ref name="wainwright">Martin Wainwright, "[httphttps://www.guardiantheguardian.co.ukcom/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.</ref> He started photography when young. Although his earliest interest in it was primarily as a technology (he even built his own [[enlarger]]),<ref name="scott">[Grant Scott], "[http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/Magazine/Photographer-Profiles/Reportage-Special-The-Not-so-swinging-sixties John Bulmer interviewed]", 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.</ref> he was a great admirer of [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]] as a teenager.<ref name="hamilton">{{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}}</ref>
 
Bulmer studied engineering at Cambridge, where his interest in photography deepened. While still a student he had photographs published in ''[[Varsity (Cambridge)|Varsity]]'' as well as a magazine he co-founded, ''Image'';<ref name="pictures">"[http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/pictures-John-Bulmer/story-11255550-detail/story.html The pictures of John Bulmer]", This is Bristol, 30 May 2009. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref> and did photostories for the ''[[Daily Express]], [[Queen (magazine)|Queen]],'' and (on [[Night climbing in Cambridge|night climbing]]) ''[[Life (magazine)|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.<ref name="scott" /><ref name="hamilton" />
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*"[http://vimeo.com/11883693 John Bulmer Retrospective] (video), Vimeo.
*"[http://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.''
*"[httphttps://www.guardiantheguardian.co.ukcom/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, "[httphttps://www.guardiantheguardian.co.ukcom/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.
 
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