Category: documentary

Colourful In-between

A street scene featuring colorful graffiti on walls, leading to a set of stairs. The area is surrounded by urban buildings, with leaves scattered on the ground and a clear blue sky above.
Conway Street, Hove

And here is the picture I did submit to the contest. The staircase leads down to Conway Street, past the bus depot, a car park and a modern block of flats, to an industrial estate. At the top is Goldstone Villas, with The Station pub immediately to the left and the Hove train station just past the pub. The street art both enlivens the scene and makes it appear a little more destitute, especially with the drifts of autumn leaves.

Ramp

Narrow driveway between buildings lined with white walls and greenery in the background.
Hove, UK

Pedantically, this ramp out of a car park, between two blocks of flats, is liminal – it is a space that is the boundary between purposeful places, between the car park and the street, between one block of flats where people live and another, a space no one needs to be except to transit from one place to another. However, as a picture, I’m not sure it conveys that sense of the liminal very well, nor is it a particularly interesting image on its own, without that context. Another reject from my mad dash to enter a contest for liminal space photographs.

Temporarily Liminal

Construction site entrance with a closed gate and signage indicating 'Road Closed' and 'No Road Markings', along with a diversion sign.
Conway and Goldstone Streets, Hove

Another reject from my hurried search for a photo of the liminal for a contest. This hardly qualifies as liminal, but in the road’s inaccessibility, it does constitute a kind of no man’s land between the bus depot being remodelled on the right and the industrial estate on the left.

Neuron Pod

A close-up view of a unique architectural structure featuring a rounded, metallic surface with protruding rods, set against a bright sky.
Queen Mary University of London

“This is the £2m Neuron Pod, one of the last posthumous works of architect Will Alsop, who proves that he is still eminently capable of making mischief from beyond the grave. The project marks the latest addition to Queen Mary University of London’s campus, an informal science learning space for the armies of schoolchildren who benefit from the teaching hospital’s lively education programme.”…more.