The Manchester Diaries: Episode 2. On my way to the Northern Quarter

Took my time to make my own drawing of the Town Hall :P

A view of Princess St.

A backstreet near Chinatown

Chinatown

Chinatown

Chinatown

Chinatown

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A view of Picadilly Gardens

Portland St ? (sorry, can't seem to remember)

Last Saturday I went out in the morning and spent at least seven hours wandering around the city. 

Its colours, textures and structures seem so gorgeous to me...I find a contemporary artwork wherever I look at. Here you have some of the pics I captured in my way to the city centre (this time I took an alternative route). My aim was to arrive to a photograph exhibition at Lever St. I never arrived, though. I mean, I arrived to the street, but got unavoidably stuck in the Northern Quarter. 

However, you'd have to wait a little more for those pics... ;)

Introducing Eleanor

Today I'd like to introduce you Eleanor. She is an eighteen-year-old girl who works full time as a fashion photographer, but whose work I find rather unconventional. What I find fascinating about her is the strenght she shows when speaking about her inner world, her inspirations, the images she has in mind, her creative process. I mean, she might seem quite pedantic while speaking about "the multicultural influences of her conceptual work" but (oh my God!!) she is only eighteen...
Most of all, I love the way she has firmly decided to create her own environment to inhabit. I have found in her the living proof that sometimes reality can be constructed by dreams, and I was delighted when hearing her pronounce the following words: "I'd like to make the unreal seem real, because nobody questions the reality of a photo".
I can give you the reference of a seven-hundred-forty pages book published by a professor of a prestigious university that speaks about the fenomenology of image and takes exactly the same assertion as starting point.
The video has been taken from Monki's webpage, where you can find more about Eleanor and other young and creative people known only by a minority. I feel very much fortunate when thinking they are in this world to generously share their wealth. 

Electric Blue

I´ve been obsessed with these buildings for months.

I pass ahead of them twice a week in my way to the gym. Well, I don´t do exactly that, because I can´t avoid standing there to observe the ensemble (while people stand there staring alternatively at me and the buildings, wondering what the hell I'm so fascinated with).

Obviously, the answer is light. It´s always changing and the effects it creates are just mind-blowing, absolutely surrealistic: I feel then as if I were the main character into a Tim Burton´s film (I´m thinking about Gotham City, of course).

You may say that these pictures are not real, and you're right: I've been playing with some edition software. But I can tell you that's exactly the way I see that place in my mind.

So sometimes technology offers us this kind of wonderful opportunities: for example,  showing the others the landscapes of our inner world.

I hope you all have had a happy sunday.