McCabe reports "can count themselves lucky: he is a man of immense charm and warmth and he knows the problems his students have to face. Sadler notes that;Gaskins was leading a course now regarded as initiating a revival of both landscape and creative photography in Britain at that time. The course was simultaneously laying the cornerstone of a new style of photographic education, the effects of which are still being felt today. For John, this meant the sharing of his technical expertise and his creative ideas in the teaching of students. The course required and encouraged both tutors and students to achieve photographic excellence in liaison with cutting edge organisations of the day. These ideals appealed to John, and he worked hard at their achievement. The 1970s saw public support of and interest in photography that led to the establishment of galleries, Arts Council bursaries and the publishing of photographic books.In 1977, Colin Thomas, founded a community project, Aware Photographic Arts, based in Liverpool's Lark Lane, where John Blakemore and others conducted workshops for thousands of disadvantaged participants from young children and unemployed adults to pensioners and exhibited the work in supermarkets and old peoples homes, libraries and at festivals. Blakemore, twenty years after its foundation wrote that Aware; "not only understands and utilises the democracy of the image, but lives in a democracy based on access for all". In 1978 Blakemore was featured with Ernst Haas in Bryn Campbell's Exploring Photography III: The Landscape, broadcast on BBC-2 England. From 1985 he was one of the contributors, with Peter Turner, Fay Godwin and Lewis Baltz, to workshops at The Photographer's Place in Derby, and in 1991 with Godwin, Derry Brabbs and Thomas Joshua Cooper at Inversnaid Lodge near Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. In 1990 he also gave printing demonstrations and workshops to members of the RPS in his own darkroom at 2 Ferrestone Road, Hornsey, and in 1992 presented Master classes at Duckspool Photographers, Somerset, with Paul Hill, Fay Godwin, Martin Parr, Eamonn McCabe, Peter Goldfield, Tom Cooper, Brian Griffin, Roger Mayne, and Sue Davies. Blakemore, in his eighties, was still conducting printing workshops, at The Photo Parlour, Nottingham, in 2019. Blakemore in 2001 became Emeritus Professor of Photography at the University of Derby. Exhibitions Solo 1964: Area in Transition, Coventry College of Art, Great Britain 1965: Girls School, City Architects Gallery, Coventry, Great Britain 1966: City Architects Gallery,