
What was it that led a man to make lighthouse keeping his life's occupation - to select a monotonous, lonely job, which took him away from his family for months at a time, leaving him in a cramped, narrow tower with two other men not of his own choosing? Lighthouse keepers...


"I want to marry a lighthouse keeper. And live by the side of the sea." So says the old song, but Parker's 1975 portrait of a handful of these men and their families shows it to be a hard and solitary existence. A vocation more than simply a profession."
