Manchester Archives - Page 10 of 15

02 Jun 2015

CHATLEY STREET, CHEETHAM HILL 5.26AM

CHATLEY STREET, CHEETHAM HILL 5.26AM – I’ve always wondered what was in the minds of the Victorian men that designed, and then constructed, the strange phallic tower that rises up from the centre of Strangeways Prison. Maybe the architect, Alfred Waterhouse, was obsessed with reminding the incarcerated criminals within of their weakness and powerlessness. Today, the surrounding streets see men slope past in their shiny cars, looking for women that will gratify their needs at a price that can never […]

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17 May 2015

HILTON STREET, MANCHESTER 4.31AM

HILTON STREET, MANCHESTER 4.31AM – It had rained in the early hours of the new day, and the roads were glistening with colour as fresh as a newly woven magic carpet. Any birdsong was drowned out by the raucous calls of girls and boys dressed in their finery, still away with the fairytale world of escape afforded them by the Manchester potion of music and drink. Dreamy eyed couples kissed at bus stops, desperate boys leapt in front of my […]

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15 May 2015

ANCOATS AT DAWN -AUDIO

The sounds of Ancoats at dawn, as recorded on my iPhone… Car alarm, birdsong and footsteps.

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11 May 2015

THE SOUND OF DAWN 1, NORTHERN QUARTER

A brief recording on my iPhone of the sounds around me one morning at dawn. There were seagulls, birds that I’m too ignorant to name and distant cars which sounded, to me, as they passed, like the gentle lapping of the sea on the shore.

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10 May 2015

THOMAS STREET, NORTHERN QUARTER 4.42AM

THOMAS STREET, 4.42AM – It was my first time photographing on a Saturday morning. The sodium lamps, neon and first gasp of dawn daylight created a filmic atmosphere, causing the buildings to look like the grand vision of a set designer, and the people in them extras, sent out on cue by a director eager to create the illusion of reality in this strange hour. This area of Manchester has, for centuries, been where people have come for pleasure, to […]

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Tag : Manchester

CHATLEY STREET, CHEETHAM HILL 5.26AM

HILTON STREET, MANCHESTER 4.31AM

ANCOATS AT DAWN -AUDIO

THE SOUND OF DAWN 1, NORTHERN QUARTER

THOMAS STREET, NORTHERN QUARTER 4.42AM

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