In 1986 he took the first photograph at this junction, with no particular intention. Every few years since, he has come back to the same spot and taken another from as close to the same angle as he can manage.
Six photographs over forty years. Recently he arranged them in order and posted them to a local forum.
The ground changed most
To many people’s surprise, what changed most across the six is not the buildings on either side but the road itself: six metres wide at first, fourteen in the middle years, then narrowed again to ten in the latest work, with planting added.
I was not thinking about any of this at the time. I just thought it was a good-looking junction.— The photographer
- Span: 1986 to the present, six photographs
- Position: the same junction, angle kept as close as possible
- Biggest change: road width and street planting
- Now held by: the municipal archive
The set has been donated to the municipal archive, where staff say continuous amateur records of this kind are uncommon in the city’s documentation.
Clearly written, and the section on the data is more solid than most coverage of this.