The Vodka Project, 2008-11

The Vodka Project, 2008-11

The Vodka Project, 2008-11 Blog  It is what it is. A blog about vodka, chronicles of journeys through Poland over a period of years. It began with the idea of a co-operation with writer and cultural critic Iwona Kurz, visiting the back corners of cities and towns...
Caribbee Island Medley

Caribbee Island Medley

Caribbee Island Medley Publication, exhibition, audio-visual presentation The title comes from the name of a notorious slum area in Wolverhampton in the 1840's, home to the new Irish migrants. Caribbee Island was an area of cheap housing in Wolverhampton for many of...
The Netherton Tunnel

The Netherton Tunnel

The Netherton Tunnel If you look hard enough you will find rivers within the industrial West Midlands, though none of any particular note or size. There’s the River Tame, typically described as an ‘urban river, polluted heavily modified by culverting, straightening,...
Local colour

Local colour

Local colour (in black & white) On a college field trip to Scotland, in the Cairngorms, I was wandering about aimlessly. I’d been given a Praktika, as had others in turn, and told to spend a day documenting the landscape. It rained most of the time that week and the...
Katyn Memorial

Katyn Memorial

Katyn Memorial Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, is a remnant of a medieval Royal hunting-forest. Covering 26 square miles, the Chase is today the largest surviving area of lowland heathland and pine forest in the Midlands and designated as an Area of Outstanding...
Digbeth City Rockers

Digbeth City Rockers

Digbeth City Rockers Cheapside. It was a dive. The only house on the street, if you can call it a house. On the edge of the city centre, itself still then a warren of subterranean passages and elevated roads. Here was an even darker part of the town, where the oil...