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ERIC HARLOW SAW FRONT LINE ACTION AS A PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER
DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND SHARES HIS EXPERIENCES...
 
During the Second World War it wasn’t just soldiers at the front line. Eric, a Mirror photographer for 40 years, was wearing his tin helmet on the white cliffs of Dover to photograph the Battle of Britain overhead. Eric relied on his trusty Rolleiflex to take some of the best photographs of the war.

"I used a Rolli camera during the war. We'd been hesitant about moving on from cameras that took glass plates because early film produced poor-quality images. But the Rolleiflex film was big and the pictures were just as good as on glass. During wartime the photos that we took were heavily censored by the Ministry of Information. I had to carry this permit with me everywhere I went, to let people know I was allowed to photograph sensitive things like bomb damage in London. Even then, all the photos I took had to be OKd by the chaps at the Ministry before they could go in the paper."  		    

source : Mirrorpix
 
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