Every picture tells a story

“He was here a moment ago. Look – there’s his gloves…”

Though largely undocumented and even unrecognised, the surrealist school of provincial press photography flourished in the second half of the 20th century.

This example, originating in Devon and appearing to date from the Seventies or Eighties, has only recently been rediscovered.

A picture is worth a thousand words, it has been said. Not always, of course.