Birmingham Archive Project by Chloe J Nicholls
An exploration of themes of gentrification, local history and the changing urban landscape
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This blog is my visual journal of Birmingham — one frame at a time. Pubs turned ghost houses, shopfronts in transition, canals that carry stories. These aren’t just photos. They’re evidence. This is the city, kept alive in fragments.
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Local Eyes
Portraits and interviews with Brummies whose stories speak to a different, often unrecorded side of the city.
City in Flux
Stories of buildings, streets, and landmarks lost to time — through closures, demolition, or regeneration. Memory vs. progress.
Planning Permission Denied
Photo-essays that push back against top-down urban planning. Where the city’s blueprints don’t match the community’s heart.
Sentimental Infrastructure
Visual and emotional studies of the places that hold memory for Chloe — cinemas, car parks, shopping centres, stairwells. Beauty in the banal.
Zones of Erasure
Photographic case studies of places closed, abandoned, or transformed — from Priory Square to The Electric Cinema.
Brutal, Beautiful
A love-hate letter to Birmingham’s concrete, steel, and red brick. Examining the city’s brutalist and post-industrial bones with aesthetic affection.
