Iain Jaques' photostream  

The 1721 Silk Mill which now houses the Derby Industrial Museum. There was a photographic exhibition hosted when i visited part of HiJacked III also at Quad. Inside the Silk Mill was a wonderful juxtaposition of photography and the museums collection of Derby's aviation and engineering heritage, especially from Rolls Royce. A wonderful piece of highly approprate regeneration right beside the River Derwent.

The modern day view of Derby with The Assembly Rooms in the foreground; Quad, Westfield and The Market Place are in the distance. This viewpoint captures the city in many guises over many era's of development.

My postpeakcartastic images on the wall of Leicester Peoples Photographic Gallery exhibited between March 12th & April 16th

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Iain Jaques’ black & white images celebrate modernism and flyover futurism beyond car culture

'Britain: A motorway race not an island race’ (Will Self)

'Genius. Relevant. Visionary. The archeology of car culture starts here’ (Ride Leicester)

'Roads and flyovers are the stuff of everyday, only these are not everyday images' (Leicester People's Photographic Gallery)

Flyovers
The Flyovers project began in 2009; the year the M1 marked 50 years since opening to an idyllic age of motoring. The images explore, rediscover and expose overlooked places and spaces. A testament to the vision and engineering skill that built them. Spaces often flown past, missed or glanced. Places and structures designed and engineered to hold up the dream of mobility, access and speed for all.

Motorways
Closing more than half a century of frenetic, heroic, and sometimes misguided motorway building is the M74 Completion project, which opened to traffic in June 2011. Photographed under construction the most expensive stretch in UK motorway history is still built true to the finest modernist planning principles, finally completing a 1960’s vision of encircling central Glasgow with urban motorways.

Peak Car
With ‘Peak-Car’ upon us the highway is a relic of the 20th century that surrounds us like shipyards, canals, railways, steelworks and coalmines of past glories and a bygone era. A memory still being discovered. Created even as it is buried. Leaving us with questions; What now for car culture? What do we do with remnants of monolithic concrete and deserted utilitarian roadscapes? Where next for the modernist vision? How do we recycle and reuse the road space to build 21st century cities ‘Fit for People’?

'Postpeakcartastic'
Flyovers - the first in a series of 'Postpeakcartastic' photographic series by Iain Jaques is currently exhibiting at Leicester People's Photographic Gallery until 16th April 2012. Works are for sale; contact Iain directly for more info.

A vision of Newcastle Upon Tyne from summer 2010. The Gateshead Trinity (Get Carter) Car Park was undergoing demolition across the Tyne. On the left is the Northumbria Campus East Extension which opened in 2007. This lovely cable stayed footbridge bridges the gap across the Central Motorway linking the two sites. This area has undergone major change since I first visited in 2004, when an abandoned cinema occupied the site of NU-Campus East.

Iain Jaques’ black & white images celebrate modernism and flyover futurism beyond car culture

'Britain: A motorway race not an island race’ (Will Self)

'Genius. Relevant. Visionary. The archeology of car culture starts here’ (Ride Leicester)

'Roads and flyovers are the stuff of everyday, only these are not everyday images' (Leicester People's Photographic Gallery)

Flyovers
The Flyovers project began in 2009; the year the M1 marked 50 years since opening to an idyllic age of motoring. The images explore, rediscover and expose overlooked places and spaces. A testament to the vision and engineering skill that built them. Spaces often flown past, missed or glanced. Places and structures designed and engineered to hold up the dream of mobility, access and speed for all.

Motorways
Closing more than half a century of frenetic, heroic, and sometimes misguided motorway building is the M74 Completion project, which opened to traffic in June 2011. Photographed under construction the most expensive stretch in UK motorway history is still built true to the finest modernist planning principles, finally completing a 1960’s vision of encircling central Glasgow with urban motorways.

Peak Car
With ‘Peak-Car’ upon us the highway is a relic of the 20th century that surrounds us like shipyards, canals, railways, steelworks and coalmines of past glories and a bygone era. A memory still being discovered. Created even as it is buried. Leaving us with questions; What now for car culture? What do we do with remnants of monolithic concrete and deserted utilitarian roadscapes? Where next for the modernist vision? How do we recycle and reuse the road space to build 21st century cities ‘Fit for People’?

'Postpeakcartastic'
Flyovers - the first in a series of 'Postpeakcartastic' photographic series by Iain Jaques is currently exhibiting at Leicester People's Photographic Gallery until 16th April 2012. Works are for sale; contact Iain directly for more info.