James Chadderton

I found some pictures on the BBC news website from an exhibition in Manchester’s Northern Quarter 2011.  The artist James Chadderton had digitally manipulated photos of well known places in Manchester such as the Urbis, Town Hall, Printworks and Palace Theatre.  They are his visions of what the city would look like at the end of the world, after an apocalypse.  A review called it “A series of images that depicted Manchester evacuated, eroded and derelict as if left to degrade for years” and “A human devoid wasteland where the buildings have been left to decay.” I love the rusty, earthy colours.  It’s interesting to imagine the end of the world; the pictures remind me of films like ‘The Road’ and ‘War of The Worlds’.