John Duncan’s ongoing Boomtown series of photographs of the streets of Belfast are a reminder of how damaged the city had become and how long it can take to recover. The pictures have a resonance here across the water where the same kinds of economic collapse (shipbuilding in particular), have produced large areas of wasteland with apparently nothing happening on them for decades.
And then all of a sudden, brightly painted board fences are thrown up, concealing well, what? Shops? Block paving, black bins with gilt ornamentation, mildly rococo ironwork, the continuing homogenisation of our public space. The remarkable thing about these photographs is that they could actually have been taken anywhere.
John Duncan’s Belfast
John Duncan’s ongoing Boomtown series of photographs of the streets of Belfast are a reminder of how damaged the city had become and how long it can take to recover. The pictures have a resonance here across the water where the same kinds of economic collapse (shipbuilding in particular), have produced large areas of wasteland with apparently nothing happening on them for decades.
And then all of a sudden, brightly painted board fences are thrown up, concealing well, what? Shops? Block paving, black bins with gilt ornamentation, mildly rococo ironwork, the continuing homogenisation of our public space. The remarkable thing about these photographs is that they could actually have been taken anywhere.
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