Byran has been a professional designer and photographer for all of his working life, from commercial and industrial to fashion and events. Over the last couple of decades he has reverted to social documentary, a theme pursued as part of his early training. Bryan's presentations will show a mix of approaches and styles.

During the 1960s he spent several years at art college in Grimsby and Manchester, emerging with a couple of design degrees. His first job was in Fleet Street in London, progressing from junior designer to chief illustrated book designer at Macmillan Publishing, then moving to Octopus Books in Mayfair as commissioning art editor.

Returning to his native Yorkshire at the end of the ‘70s, he worked as a newspaper artist, an advertising agency visualiser, and manager of a commercial photographic and video company. After a period of freelance work, he formed a design and advertising company, Ledgard Jepson Limited. Expansion during the late ‘80s and early ‘90s resulted in an office in New York.

After leaving the company, he returned to operating as a freelance publications designer and photographer. His work has appeared in publications and on websites for Sky Arts, BBC Radio 2, The National Fairground Archive, Enjoy Travel, The English Folk Dance and Song Society and The Geographical Association, as well as national journals and newspapers.