2nd December 2008 – May 2009
“Walking around any city it is not uncommon to catch glimpses of the world that exists beneath the polished surfaces of glass and steel. Snatched glances into an open grate, through a broken hoarding, behind a door ajar reveal, if only for a moment, the hidden world that serves to support our contemporary imaginings of the city…”
From 2nd December 2008 until May 2009 Urbis will be exhibiting a series of newly commissioned works from experimental photographer Andrew Paul Brooks documenting his journeys behind the scenes with Manchester’s official and unofficial custodians of the hidden city. Joining the unsung characters who maintain the city’s landmark buildings, the security personnel who patrol the empty spaces and Manchester’s own community of Urban Explorers the exhibition promises to reveal concealed, restricted and sometimes forgotten spaces that hover in the peripheral vision of the day-to-day like never before.
Check it out @ Urbis
You can see a selection of the exhibition’s images at the photographer’s website here.
