Robert Blomfield at India Place, Edinburgh, 1966. Photograph: Jane Alexander
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Mon 22 Feb 2021 06.23 EST
Last modified on Fri 2 Apr 2021 13.55 EDT
My brother, Robert Blomfield, who has died aged 82, was a family doctor who practised in Wrexham then Hebden Bridge. The website robertblomfield.co.uk shows that he was also an outstanding photographer.
Around the age of 13, Robert started using his father’s Leica and Contax cameras. He soon mastered them, showing a natural flair for photography, spending many hours coaxing prints from special paper immersed in bowls of chemicals under the filtered light of his father’s makeshift darkroom. Later, at Repton school in Derbyshire, the headteacher, recognising his talent, gave him free rein; from then on he was rarely seen without a camera.
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