Breda - Cambridge Photography Symposium 02/05/14

Loren McCarthy

Cambridge School of Art

Desolation

 

What does your local high street say? Are some High street stores an out dated form of consumerism, with people choosing to go home and order online instead?

 

This is a documentary project that explores the changes to our local towns; I have chosen to focus on Southend-On-Sea, Essex, a seaside town that is rapidly losing its identity. The high street is now mainly made up of fast food restaurants, empty units, discount stores and betting stores. The project is a mixture of photographs, interviews and statistics that ultimately makes people question the stability of their local high streets?

 

I want to visually communicate this through presenting a series of images alongside interviews that give an insight into the real High Street. I plan to expand on this project throughout the summer by looking into other towns and comparing the similarities.