June Street, Salford 1973 — a joint project with Martin Parr

This discovery inspired us to go looking for a classic 'Street' to document before the bulldozers moved in. We settled on June Street in Ordsall, twenty houses that were still fully occupied. Over eight weeks or so, using the college Hasselblad and a bright photoflood lightbulb (screwed into the ceiling socket), we photographed each household — adults, children, dogs, cats, the budgie and, in one case, a tortoise — sitting together in their front rooms. When it was all done, we invited everyone to take part in a group photograph.

On 21 May 1973, BBC Look North broadcast a TV news feature constructed around our photographs incorporating a sound montage in voice-over, edited by Linda McDougall, of June Street residents articulating their anxieties about being relocated. We were paid £10.

See video  r/t 5 min., 13 sec.