A photographic study of a family hi-fi store is a vivid portrait of a small business

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Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and Technology Editor. Jonathan has written and edited 15 books, including Concept Car Design, 21st Century House, and The New Modern House.

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.

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