The Sheffield Project - John Darwell

During the 1980s, Sheffield’s Untitled Gallery, now Site Gallery, commissioned a series of photographers to document the city at a pivotal moment in its history. It was a time of great upheaval, which saw the aftermath of the Miners’ Strike, the steel industry’s workforce decimated, mass unemployment and dereliction. But it was also a time in which the city began to imagine its future, one that would include the Meadowhall retail development, the transformation of the lower Don Valley, and the World Student Games.
In this short film, photographer John Darwell talks us through the series of photographs he created to reflect this monumental period of change for the city, and how this project led him to take his first ever colour photograph, completely changing his views of what photography meant to him.
Darwell's work now forms part of an exhibition at Weston Park Museum - The Sheffield Project: Photographs of a Changing City, on display until May 2021.
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Great photographer, always admired John. Makes me sad he can't afford to shoot film anymore...makes me sad I can't either come to think of it.

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