Street Manual

A field guide for street photographers.

by Luke Carey

Projects2 hours

Industrial Estates

The other side of Britain.

Industrial estates on weekday mornings - the vans, the workers, the functional architecture, the businesses that keep everything running but never appear in anyone's photographs.

How to shoot it: Weekday mornings, when the vans are moving and the units are open. Shoot the functional architecture, the signage, the workers on a break, the whole overlooked machinery of working Britain. Flat light suits the deadpan subject, and a wide lens holds the scale of car parks and sheds. Almost nobody photographs this, which is exactly why the record matters, so shoot it plainly and completely.

The output: A document of working Britain that's almost entirely absent from photography.

Camera Settings

Any.

The Assignment

Go to an industrial estate on a weekday morning. Photograph the workers and the work.

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