Madchester

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'Madchester' graffiti on the wall of a partly demolished building in Salford, shot in black and white to emphasise the texture of the deteriorating brickwork. The wildstyle lettering fills the frame, its decorative bubble forms set against weathered brick, peeling render, and weeds growing at the base of the wall. The word carries weight beyond the lettering. Madchester was the late 1980s and early 1990s cultural movement centred on Factory Records, the Haçienda, and bands including The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. Finding it on a building in the process of being torn down gives the image an unintended elegiac quality.