Northern Irish Housing, spelled out in Scrabble letters, on a map of Northern Ireland

Northern Irish Housing, spelled out in Scrabble letters, on a map of Northern Ireland Stock Photo
Preview

Image details

Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JCM8MC

File size:

57.1 MB (3.3 MB Compressed download)

Releases:

Model - no | Property - noDo I need a release?

Dimensions:

5472 x 3648 px | 46.3 x 30.9 cm | 18.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

20 April 2020

More information:

. This location-specific image from the recorded location in 2020 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The location is represented through Northern Irish Housing, spelled out in Scrabble letters, on a map of Northern Ireland. The broader subject matter reaches into contemporary city life, local history, before-and-after reference, community identity, community life, historical comparison, social history, local character, street-level documentary, visual archive, local identity, everyday life, public realm, and townscape record. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with public-realm change, local identity and how regeneration alters the character of familiar places. Small period details of local activity and public use at the recorded location may become more significant with time, particularly following different community use. The location also brings in everyday street life, changing streetscape, urban change, changing land use, city-centre activity, archival record, urban social history, and documentary photography. Details involving Ireland, spelled, Scrabble, Irish, and Housing make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within the recorded location, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another strand within the photograph is public-realm change and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The setting also helps illustrate commercial change and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments when considered against later change at the recorded location. It also preserves a trace of local identity within the wider story of the recorded location.