{"id":407,"date":"2026-03-17T18:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/?p=407"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:59:34","slug":"oxford-1978-first-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/2026\/03\/17\/oxford-1978-first-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford 1978: First Photographs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was clearing up some mess in my studio and a contact sheet fell out of a Oxford Polytechnic Foundation course Sketchbook. The original negatives are long gone but the photographs have somehow reappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images of Oxford are from the other side of the tracks to the university..literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images of Didcot Power Station are at its peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was clearing up some mess in my studio and a contact sheet fell out of a Oxford Polytechnic Foundation course Sketchbook. The original negatives are long gone but the photographs have somehow reappeared. The images of Oxford are from the other side of the tracks to the university..literally. The images of Didcot Power Station…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cameras","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/oxford78.jpg?fit=1002%2C803&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}