Influenced by the photographs of Helen Levitt, Lisette Model and Andre Kertesz, Adrian Gatie began to photograph in the streets of Manchester in the late 1970s. Some of his photographs of Moss Side and Salford were published in Manchester newspapers in 1985. Shortly afterwards he was contacted by the Documentary Photography Archive via Peter Turner at Creative Camera magazine, resulting in several notable projects. Around 100 of Adrian Gatie's documentary photographs from this period are held in the DPA’s permanent collection within the National Archives.
1987 saw Gatie’s first exhibition, In Penumbria, seventy-five photographs of the downside of northern urban life...
