ONGOING
Ongoing........
Originally started back in 1999 ‘The Manchester Project‘ is photographer Mark Page’s ongoing personal portrait of a Northern English post-industrial city.
It seems to me that the story of these images is a commentary on the gap between what we’re told to be and what we are – particularly looking at those huge numbers of Mancunians whose social norms are undermined in the public facing presentation of the city – real people ignored for not fitting in to a gentrified vision of the city.
Its in this gap, between the aspirational marketing of corporate hegemony that Manchester has eagerly embraced and the reality of a Britain that ended up been forgotten in the recently passed boom years, that Page’s work always skilfully shines a light and starts to take on importance beyond the boundaries of the M60.
Andy Brydon CURATED PLACE, Manchester 2010
Originally started back in 1999 ‘The Manchester Project‘ is photographer Mark Page’s ongoing personal portrait of a Northern English post-industrial city.
It seems to me that the story of these images is a commentary on the gap between what we’re told to be and what we are – particularly looking at those huge numbers of Mancunians whose social norms are undermined in the public facing presentation of the city – real people ignored for not fitting in to a gentrified vision of the city.
Its in this gap, between the aspirational marketing of corporate hegemony that Manchester has eagerly embraced and the reality of a Britain that ended up been forgotten in the recently passed boom years, that Page’s work always skilfully shines a light and starts to take on importance beyond the boundaries of the M60.
Andy Brydon CURATED PLACE, Manchester 2010