Hoare, Chris, photographer.

Growing spaces / Chris Hoare.

Bristol, UK : RRB Photobooks, 2021.

72 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Growing Spaces by photographer Chris Hoare is a chronicle of urban land cultivation in Bristol. Since April 2020, Hoare has been slowly and methodically documenting the allotment-goers, landscape and seasonal changes across the official and unofficial growing spaces of the city. The resulting photographs, originally commissioned by Bristol Photo Festival, are published in this new book Growing Spaces to coincide with an exhibition of the work at the inaugural festival in summer 2021. Hoare's project documents eleven sites across the city from established allotment sites to community gardens and improvised plots on disused lands. The project was conceived pre- Covid-19 pandemic but its timing, coinciding with increased demand for green spaces for cultivating produce, allowed him to capture the formation and energy of a growing renaissance. The allotment system recognised today originated in the 19th Century. Land was given to the labouring poor to allow them to grow food at a time of rapid industrialisation with no welfare state in place. Allotments were transformed during the famous "Dig For Victory" campaign during World War II and since then their popularity has wavered. Over time, the stereotype of an allotment goer came to depict a middle-class pastime for retirees. However, in recent years this image of urban land cultivation has evolved as an increasing number of economically and environmentally-conscious young people, families and ethnic minorities are claiming plots. In the process, they are transforming the fertile growing spaces with their own choice of produce and farming methods -- Source other than Library of Congress.

9781838268312 (paperback)
1838268316 (paperback)

Hoare, Chris.
Community gardens Great Britain Pictorial works.
Documentary photography 21st century.
Jardins communautaires Grande-Bretagne Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie documentaire 21e siècle.
Community gardens
Documentary photography
Great Britain

photobooks.
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Pictorial works
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 309879
Cote: BIB 255022
Statut: Disponible