Lees Hill Road, Sneinton, Nottingham,1980/1981.
City of Nottingham
Canal side
Night time, the canal, Nottingham approx 1981. First or second year project of a series of canal images taken at night.
BBC Radio Nottingham 1981, live on air
This was going to be part of a project on the entertainment industry that I had negotiated with the course leader Euan Duff, it was never used as the project became more nightlife based.
Dancing class
Image taken in the main hall of the Nottingham YMCA during a dancing class. Im drawn to this image as it is so “quiet”.
This was part of a second year photo documentary project at Trent Polytechnic. Taken in either 1981 or 1982.
In retrospect photographing the raw energy and chaos of the younger classes and the more refined formal dancing of the older classes gave me a spectrum of images reflective of life’s progression.
Cemetery
Nottingham.
The Blind Institute
Near the arboretum. Taken using a pre war Voigtländer Brilliant tlr camera. Taken in approx 1982.
I love the way old lenses render light. Pictorialism was well out of favour in the early 1980s so these images were for personal use only.
Nottingham.
There are more images in this sequence on this page: https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/midland-institute-for-the-blind-nottingham/
The Arboretum on a foggy night
The Arboretum is one of my favourite places in Nottingham, like the Victoria park of my youth these spaces bring nature, space and light into people’s lives, they are precious places.
The Victoria Center circa 1981
Nottingham.
Nightshot
Nottingham.