UA-171643620-1 Steve Bootle Working Hours Interview - Working Hours

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Published on:

1st May 2025

Work is Revealing

Recorded on 19/01/2025

Steve Bootle is a freelance photographer based in North Leeds, with over 25 years’ experience.

Steve works mainly in corporate, business and commercial photography, concentrating on business portraits and PR. He also covers events and conferences, along with weddings and bar / bat mitzvahs.

We discuss the challenges and rewards of a career behind the lens, the impact of the digital revolution on photography, and the ongoing influence of social media on his industry. Steve also delves into the realities of freelancing, the importance of networking, and his hopes for the future, including his desire to give back through community and charity work.

You can find Steve Bootle at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebootle/

https://www.facebook.com/stephen.bootle.31

https://x.com/sb1photography

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About the Podcast

Working Hours
The Story of Work in Leeds in the 2020s
What do you do?
Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us?
Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency.
If you are in Leeds or from Leeds then help me to reach my target of interviewing 1000 Loiners over the 2020s. Let me ask you, what do you do?
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