Auty & Ruddock

Auty & Ruddock was a partnership between two of North East England’s finest late-Victorian photographers.

Matthew Auty (1850-1895) was a tobacconist, who turned his hobby into an award-winning photography business specialising in landscapes.

Richard Emerson Ruddock (1863-1931) featured in my recent Pressphotoman series on portrait photographers, who train…