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In 1973, Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr photographed the residents of June Street in Salford, documenting them in the front rooms of their homes, just months before their red-brick terraced houses were demolished. 50 years later, a mile away from where the June Street photographs were taken, residents of Spring Lane were photographed in their newly built development
The Spring Lane photos are a homage to Meadows and Parr’s June Street, and a snap shoot of a type of modern city living . At their core both are a celebration of people and their humanness,
The June Street photographs are some of the most compelling and emotive of all of Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr’s work. They are beautiful photographs that quietly celebrate the people and their homes. They seem to have an enduring power to move and affect people. Given that the June Street terraces were demolished shortly after those photographs were taken, The opportunity of photographing the residents of Spring Lane soon after they had moved into a new terrace development seemed poetic and irresistible. Seen together they invite comparisons about the changes and the similarities across the 50 years and how the shifts in Décor, Home, Family, Community & Belonging, City Living, Housing and Housing Policy, Technology and Representation imbue the work.
Both series of photographs were exhibited as ‘Lived-In Rooms’ 2019/2020, on site, in an ex-show flat, as the part of Quarantine’s Tenancy Programme
Exhibition Credits:
Quarantine – Producers
Kate Daley – Co-Curator
Andrew Warstat – Writer
Jonathan Hitchen – Design
Thanks:
Natasha Howes – Manchester Art Gallery
Jenny Walker -Artist
Professor Sally Stone – Manchester School of Architecture
Daniel Meadows & Martin Parr for permission of use.
Copyright © 1973 Daniel Meadows & Martin Parr –June Street Photographs
