drive way

"a studiously banal suburban driveway"
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent.

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ricoeurian says:

stunningly Ballardian - I love it
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

kykirkwood says:

Congratulations on your selection by the Tate. And it's a wonderful image, though the hedges give me the heebiejeebies.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

geo_hill says:

very nice - congratulations
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Lance Catedral says:

i want to live here. congratulations!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

susan catherine says:

Congrats on the Tate selection! I wondered if the choices were going to be mundane ( in a boring way! ) This is 'banal' in a good way!

Bravo!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Thanks all.It was a pleasant surprise.I'm only glad that i had to choose my submission.
This image is a typical view of the British Suburb;even though it was taken in Windsor it could have been taken in a number of other places.
I have a love/hate relationship with the suburbs and the much maligned bungalow.There was a study of British tastes in housing and the research showed that overwhelming number of the population would prefer to live in Brookside ( a soap opera.equivalents might be Knot's Landing /Neighbours).Most of them are built with impoverished imagination.In any case the suburb is the result of desires,beliefs,needs and money.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Tate Gallery says:

This photograph was selected as one of forty photographs in the How We Are Now Flickr group which invited members of the public to submit their photographs to the exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain in 2007. The Final 40 photographs were shown at Tate Britain for the last month of the exhibition and are archived on Tate Online.

We would like to congratulate velvetair and thank all those who took part in the project.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

whirrdz says:

Hey congrats -- coolly intelligent & well-composed shot as always!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

joshhikes says:

seen in

be a suburbanite & post some more in suburbanality!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

samcadby says:

This is totaly wonderful. Such a subtle distallation of all that is surburban Britain. A hundred years of the evolution of social mediocracy in a single frame, but not presented in a condecending or derogatory tone. Really one of the best documentary photos I have seen in a long time.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

velvetair says:

thanks you all for your comments
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

K_A_Y says:

:-)
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Love Of Carnage! says:

absolutely lovely!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

miscpix says:

Outstanding! Gosh! This is really breathtaking: one of the best pictures I've seen on flickr in a long time.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

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