Blast from the past as press photographer magics his black and white negatives into the digital age
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A meticulously kept photographic archive is making it into the digital age.Pressman Stephen Mansfield ended up working for The Scotsman newspaper.But it was while working with papers in Renfrewshire over many years that he feels he captured some of his best work.And Stephen, now 65, said: “I think the difference with local papers is people want you to be there and photograph them as part of local life.“In the nationals you are probably the last thing folk want to see as normally it will be some disaster or hard news.”Negatives have been kept faithfully in the former Barrhead resident’s home, all perfectly captioned.Now, 30 years on, Stephen is scanning