Yes – I like that tag line. Hello World!! Brand new blog here to start my own reach out of my photography, thoughts and other whims.
One of my initial ambitions was to be an author but oh how I love Photography and gardening (I can be found in my potting shed, should I not have a lens glued to my face).
I want to use this blog to showcase photography that does not quite sit with my events and documentary photography. I am originally from a Fine Art background and use photography to tell stories about people, passion and life. Follow me and my recommendations as I attempt to spin you a yarn and tell you a tale through words, pictures, dance, music and theatre.
Dreams and laughter, a sense of humor are important in life – and so I keep having to tell myself. Have we disconnected with ourselves as we become more and more obsessed with possession of things in modern suburban life? Do we become products of our surroundings – what do you aspire to? Recently I photographed Queens Park Layton, Blackpool as the new development goes up and the sky rises are scheduled to come down.
I hope the photographs tell their own story.
• 475,000 homes were destroyed during WW2 – the post war Labour government accepted it had to build houses .
• mid 1950s lower building standards introduced by the Conservative government – a subsidy was given to councils for high rise blocks.
Claire Griffiths Photography 
Thoughtful writing and great images.
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Great stuff – I love it 🙂 xx
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I’ve passed these buildings lots of times and always thought them a bit of an eye sore but looking at these photographs stirs up a sense of serene sadness. You can almost hear the daily bustle of the buildings with people coming and going, the friendships built up over years and children playing together but now everything is bleak and dormant… Very nicely captured.
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How did it feel to leave here for the last time and move just around the corner? – Answer – I owned the maisonette that you were stood outside when you took this picture. I left Blackpool when I sold it to the council. I now live in Doncaster and I feel much happier here. Ten years on Queens Park, many good people, not so many bad people, a few suicides from the top of the towers, a fire which killed two, many fights and stabbings, it was always interesting. I now live a peaceful far removed life from that crazy poverty stricken place. No sirens or helicopters hovering above chasing mopeds. It felt good saying goodbye.
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Thank you very much for such a engaging response to the images. The flats will soon be gone – I think they were originally considered a good solution to housing and quite utopian? Those maisonettes were exceptionally sad I thought, the sadness mostly coming from the “No Ball Game” signs and the fortress feeling of it all. Thank you so much for making a comment xx
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