Technicians: industry’s unsung heroes

With Britain facing a skills shortage, a new exhibition is highlighting the work of British industry’s backroom boys and girlsPictured seated in a workshop, visor raised, 20-year-old Sophy Bage gazes resolutely across the room. Hair drawn back tightly into a ponytail, bright yellow earplugs just visible, a small smile steals across her illuminated face. She looks completely at home – and well she might. Because Bage is a welder.On show at the Mall Galleries in central London, this ph