James Shackleton's Blog

Gunn Street

London, 1992

I was in my second year at university, studying Architecture. The building industry wasn’t building. Architects earned money by gutting buildings to avoid taxes. This was just a quick photo as I was walking with a friend, but it summed up how we all felt at the time.

It also makes me think of one my brief brushes with professional photographers. A very kind man called Colin – used to let me use his darkroom. I blush to think of the photos of mine he must have seen. His comment on this one, was about the barrel distortion – which didn’t look so bad to me – but I suppose architectural stuff was his thing.