During the 1950's the Brighton based photography studio Deane and Millar were commisioned by the local council to record the state of buildings in particular areas of the town. These photographs were used in the planning of the towns slum clearances, as ordered by the Department of the Environment. Not only have the buildings gone, but many of the streets, along with their names have also been removed, the lines they made across the map replaced by the mass of the Churchill Square shopping centre or rows of 1960's housing blocks.

I became interested in the places in which Deane and Millar had worked, and began making my own photographs around these areas early in 2008.

Some elements of the old streets remain, but mostly they only exist in the archived maps and images of the museum, these photographs were created not so much to document these places, but to echo their movement from built space into archived material.

(These images were shown as a online exhibition. The project was made with the kind help of Kevin Bacon of Brighton & Hove Museum)