35mm: Warehouse Triptych
[Pentax ME Super – Kodak Portra 400 135 film]
Polmadie Car Boot Sale, Glasgow
Mostly Polaroids – Dougie Kennedy
35mm: Reappraisal of Demolished Achievement Triptych
Camera: Asahi Pentax SP 1000 on expired Kodacolor 200
Site of the Kinning Park Cooperative Society (demolished 1902) Bridge Street, Glasgow.
The site is situated between India Buildings (37-45 Bridge Street) on the left and the former Coop drapery warehouse extension to the right (61 Bridge Street).
Polaroids: SALES // BROKEN // REPAIR
[Camera: Polaroid Impulse Portrait – impossible project 600 colour film]
An early morning diversion took me passed an old electronic store. It was closed and it’s shutters were down. I only glanced at it as I went by on a bus and saw what looked like an interesting painted typeface on the shutters. It reminded me of photos of 1970s New York and I thought it would make a nice Polaroid or two. Worried the shop would be open and the shutters up by the time I’d nipped home to grab my camera I hurried back. On my return the shutters were still down, reading the services advertised – among them sales of cassettes and video repairs – I would guess the shutters haven’t been up in a long time.
The walk home brought me to an abandoned ‘Computer Play’ arcade machine. This graffitied relic sits dead outside a newsagent in Govanhill unloved & unplugged. RIP my childhood.
SALES // BROKEN // REPAIRS