Urban on a Slope

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Urban on a Slope

PrizeHonorable Mention in Exterior Architecture Photography / Cultural Exterior

LocationTaichung, Taiwan

StudioShashin Photo Studio

PhotographerSHIH HUNG YANG

This series highlights a part of Sheffield that very rarely features in tourist photographs or civic boosterism. These are the alleys and aged buildings dotted through the hilly terrain of the city. Many of these edifices look empty or deserted. Their walls are pocked with cracks, their windows shattered, and every surface is a canvas for graffiti. These signs are messy, but they speak an urban language from the margins. They are signs of resistance, of speech, of being, scored into disused places.