For this brief I decided to split the six images into twos sets of 3. Whilst they are all of the same topographical theme, the two sets have different focuses. The first set looks at semi-detached houses and how, whilst technically the same building, each side can be entirely different, expressing different tastes and reflecting contrasting styles. I chose to put all of my images here into black and white, with specifically dark red tones in the style of Robert Adams. This way, it is easier to see the beauty in the architecture.
All of these images speak of home, in both a material and physical sense as well as the memories that attach themselves to places.
This second set of images looks at streets. The difference between these photos and the ones of the photographers in my research is cars; vehicles populate our streets are impossible to avoid – in a way these are more temporary homes, stationed outside the real homes in these images. The first image here features the symmetry and lines that I wanted to take from Struth’s work, however it is actually not very easy to create in the areas that I had access to during this time frame. The first image features a lot of for-sale and rent signs; at first I thought this was a distraction, however no area is free of these signs and in a way they speak about the status of a physical home. The second image also achieves a near sense of symmetry. This image is from Leeds and speaks of the back streets, the areas not populated by cars but by children, graffiti, bins and garden gates. The final image is emptier with a different kind of house and fancier cars, including a taxi, more similar to those in the first set of images.