East Parade, 2025

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This series traces a walk from Mowbray House down East Parade, Harrogate to the edge of the town centre, captured at dusk - a liminal time of day when light fades and the familiar feels unsettled. Shot digitally but edited to evoke the soft imperfections of 120-film toy cameras, the images carry a second, hauntological layer, hinting at a past that never quite existed and a future that never arrived. Rather than following the literal sequence of the walk, the photographs are arranged by form and composition, reflecting the fragmented, dreamlike way memory works - pieces of a story that don’t quite fit, yet still feel like home.

Map of High Harrogate from1892

The first map showing where I live, dated 1892.

Mic Drop, Dawn

by Andrew Backhouse | A Sound Map Of Harrogate

Down East Parade, Heading to town
East Parade from Mowbray Square
Up Hyde Park Road
Bower Tunnel
Down Dragon Parade
Up East Parade
Haywra Court Care Home
Regency Roundabout liminal space
Overgrown Lawn #01
Overgrown Lawn #02
Zelst Hedge
Mowbray House gardens
Grafitti Hedge
Squeeze
The front of Mowbray House
"Theatre of the spectacle"
Here nor there
There nor here
Nor there here
Sign post, Speed
Open, unused space
Mowbray House steps
Bower Road arches - the start of the town centre