Another exhibition I went to see at the Urbis was called "Hidden Manchester" by Andrew Paul Brookes. It was a display of photos that had been taken around parts of Manchester that "catch glimpses of the world that exists beneath the polished surfaces of glass and steel." as they had put it. "Snatched glances into an open grate, through a broken hoarding, behind a door ajar reveal, if only for a moment, the hidden world that serves to support our contemporary imaginings of the city."
The photos were simply stunning. The way they had been presented, printed onto huge canvases with light shining through from behind really brought the photos to life. Although most of the photos where of grimy backstreets and sewers and were interesting in their own right, they had been made that bit more special through the presentation. I think the photographer had used some sort of fish-eye lens because the perspective on some of them looked distorted - but in a good way, again making the ordinarily bland or unnoticed seem quirky and wonderful. It was obvious the photographer had spent a lot of time thinking about things like composition, scale, orientation and framing.
I don't know that much about photography but id say this is a must see for any keen photographers out there, as well as anybody who might just want to see Manchester through a tramps eye.
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