Andy Lock, Sunlit Uplands

 
 

Contemporary photographs of British, post-war council estates. These images have grown out of a fascination with examples of the architectural photography of the 1950s and 60s: images characterised by intensely sunlit, starkly shadowed, black and white scenes, which delineated the new buildings and spaces of the post war era.

 
near Halifax Drive, Stocking Farm, Leicester, Summer 2011 image © andy lock 2011

These immediate post-war images are for us I think, at once futuristic and yet also simoultaneously rich with nostalgia and are therefore (literally) utopian. Far more than simply documenting architectural structures and spaces, they arguably set out their own distinctive vision of a new architectural and social landscape, which is at once of the future and of the past, but either way unobtainable.