City Stories

'City Stories - Photographs of Cardiff, 1969-1977'
The photographs of Splott, where I was brought up and went to school, were made at the time that the main employer in the area - the steelworks - was closing, and the area being pulled apart and 're-developed'. This was a substantial part of the city not just in transition but about to disappear altogether. Conscious of the very major changes there and the upheaval to the many residents at the time, I would return on numerous occasions to record the street life and the gradual decay and destruction of the urban landscape that I had regarded as home until the mid 1960’s. I also continued this work in the wider city environment. Ideas and attitudes to creative work alter as time progresses and reactions to particular images change as they are viewed in a different historical and social context from the ones in which they were created. 
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