Janine Wiedel (born 1947) is a documentary photographer and visual anthropologist. She was born in New York city, has been based in the UK since 1970 and lives in London. Since the late 1960s she has been working on projects which have become books and exhibitions. In the early 1970s she spent five years working on a project about Irish Travellers. In the late 1970s she spent two years documenting the industrial heartland of Britain.Wiedel\'s work is socially minded, exploring themes such as resistance, protest, multiculturalism and counter culture movements.Wiedel\'s books include Irish Tinkers (1976), Looking at Iran (1976), Vulcan\'s Forge (1979), Dover, a Port in a Storm (1991) and Faces with Voices (1992).The Vulcan\'s Forge project was the focus of a major exhibition at the Photographer\'s Gallery, London.This copy of the book is in very good condition. The back has yellowed with age.There is some slight scuffing of the lower right hand front cover. There is a previous owner\'s name on the upper part of the title page with Janine Wiedel\'s signature and a date below (see photo).