Bela Zola was a dark room assistant for James Jarche before joining the Daily Mirror shortly after the Second World War. Like all Mirror photographers, Bela was expected to cover anything and everything the news agenda threw up. In the morning he might be in the studio shooting for a fashion feature, in the afternoon he might be expected to photograph any number of newsworthy events taking place in the capital, and in the evening he could be seen at film premieres or social events capturing the great and the good for the next day’s paper. Zola's talent for a good image, was recognized by the paper's management, and in the early 1950s, the Daily Mirror gave him a page called “Life in the Mirror". Here, he recorded the day to day lives of people who made up Britain. In the 1960s, he covered the rise of the Beatles and the ever changing face of Britain. A few of the events captured by his lens, were the tragic results of the mudslide at Aberfan. The great train robbery, the anti Vietnam war demonstrations in London and the Profumo affair. Bela's career with the Daily Mirror finally came to an end in 1975, when he retired after 30 years service.
