Hannah Dargavel-Leafe

In reply to A Subersible's invitation to submit some site-related research material, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe has submitted photographs of a selection of sites in Belfast, Manchester and London which are significant to her work. All images show buildings at points of change, whether

being built, knocked down or abandoned and gone to ruin. Dargavel-Leafe is interested in the time that each change exists in. She has remarked that the abandoned buildings are "forever in a frozen state of flux, whereas the building being demolished is peeled 

apart bit by bit to reveal its innards, and the tower block being blown up disappears in a moment." She is also interested in the modernist, minimal qualities of the sites and the block colours revealed in the once private homes. 

All photographs courtesy of the artist excluding the image of the demolition of a tower block in Glencairn which is a screen grab from a video found on the BBC news website in 2012.

Abandoned Structure, Hulme, Manchester, UK

Abandoned Structure, Ancoats, Manchester, UK

Building Skeleton, East End, London, UK

Building Skeleton, All Saints, Manchester, UK

Abandoned Structure, Ancoats (tower), Manchester, UK

Demolition, Glencairn, Belfast, UK

Demolition, Hulme, Manchester, UK

Links:

hdargavel-leafe.blogspot.com

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