The street I live on has changed so much over the years. Once known as “Little Jerusalem,” it’s evolved into a vibrant mix of cultures and communities. Walking up and down the city centre stretch today, you can see the shops, the people, and the energy that make it feel alive in a completely new way. For this project, The Men of Clanbrassil Street, I wanted to capture that connection—the men who work and live here now, alongside the whispers of the street’s past.
1960 Eddie Thornton’s Grocery Store
1964 Gregory Conlon’s Curio Shop
1975 James and Seamus Travers of Travers Photography
2001 Khuram Khan Business Solutions
2009 Waqas Baig New Image Barber Shop
2010 Pasha Khan Style and Style
All image credits to Shuttermaniac.
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Award-winning Filmmaker and Creative Director with a focus on disciplines in the fields of art, commerce, emerging technology, and tourism.
Before this blog started (prior to Oct 2012) he had a Facebook page which served as a means for keeping clients and friends updated to any upcoming gigs, work and events. This also served as a back catalogue for said clients wishing to see their portfolios shown on a public platform for review and critique. He currently has a website which only started last year May 2011 and has already attracted a plethora of international interest (but mainly Scottish..)
‘Dublin’s Arts and Antique Quarter’ use his images in their highlighting of the up and becoming cultural area in and Francis Street.
The Blogger comes from a small, quiet agricultural seaside town just south of Glasgow, so always had the aspirations to seek out the next big city and run away from home. Since the childhood dream of leaving home officially (usually a kick in the arse when you turn sixteen) he has worked, lived, and squandered his time around the globe. Dodging in and out of Hospitality/ Catering work as often as a stray dog to a home he worked in every level of Hotels, Restaurants and Bars and even served time in the Merchant Navy as a Drunken Sailor/ Sommelier on board the QE2 cruise liner.
The common factor in all this unsettled chaos, was the pastime in which this young man adhered all his spare time and attention to. With years spent away from home and cultural comfort zones, and having a distinct lack of wanting to return, he was only going to be immersed deeper into this new-found career path.
“It’s only by looking back and organising your photographs, that you can make sense of all this madness, which we call life”. At least that’s what I think she said, as my forgetful grandmother asked me for the third time.
“Who is this one again, son?”
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