Fashion photographer Nik Hartley has returned to his roots with this photographic series about a small family hi-fi shop in his hometown of Nelson, Lancashire. Wilkinson’s has been going for 50 years and played a key part in Hartley’s own childhood. ‘My dad used to get his speakers and amplifiers from the shop,’ he recalls, ‘for my 21st birthday I was given £200, and I went there and bought an Arcam amplifier, which I still have.
‘Business started to boom again,’ says Hartley, and the family now has its third-generation employee, David’s son Callum.Hartley specialises in fashion shoots but has increased delved into projects focusing on his home county and the various communities that live there.