SULLY photographer, Chalkie Davies, will be featured in a BBC Two Wales programme airing on Friday, June 5.

Chalkie Davies: Back in Focus follows the photographer as he prepares for his first major exhibition at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. During the programme Chalkie will revisit his childhood haunts and will reflect on an extraordinary career.

Always a keen amateur photographer, his career flourished when he won a camra club competition in 1973 and he started photographing the stars of rock and roll.

In the late 1970s he was a photographer at the New Musical Express, taking pictures of bands like Thin Lizzy, the Clash, the Sex Pistols and many more.

He became a favourite among punk and new wave bands including The Specials, Squeeze and Elvis Costello. Chalkie’s pictures summed up the era and many are classics of rock and roll photography. But by the mid 1980s he’d become disenchanted with the music business, where image mattered more than music.

During the programme there will be contributions from many of the musicians he photographed including Elvis Costello, Chris Difford of Squeeze, songwriter Nick Lowe, Specials main-man Jerry Dammers and punk poet John Cooper Clarke.

Chalkie Davies: Back in Focus will be aired at 9pm.