The North- 2018

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The 1970’s saw some turbulence with politics and industry, especially in the north of the UK but the way we travel, the things we see along the way and the small things that speak quintessential northern Britain haven’t changed at all. This creates a landscape which has the aesthetic of the latter half of the twentieth century, keeping a grey, dull but recognisable country. Why haven’t the small details changed and do they need to be changed?

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Road signs and markings, large cityscapes and rural villages to public use street furniture are all things that have not shifted in design or changed much in the past fifty years. This leaves knackered and tired compositions that go unnoticed.

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The project takes on a range of genres in photography, detailing the modern and informative roads, cities and signs, nit-picking at the tiniest of unchanged objects and looking at how society lives and works today.  It highlights the importance of looked over thoughts and designs from the past and asks the question – “If it isn’t broken, why fix it?” which in turn compares to the significant changes in Britain.