There I Was Stationery & Totes commissioned by the city of

commissioned by the city of Gateshead in England

seen with glacial clarity by one of the world’s foremost photographers

In that respect it was totally different from every other house on the street

spaghetti junctions and skid row – but the place is not so easily distilled or visualised

instead she guided her students in taking their own pictures of their daily lives

There I Was Stationery & Totes commissioned by the city ofThere I Was marks a shift in medium and a conceptual departure for Collier Schorr. She is best known for her photographic studies of a real and imagined town in southern Germany, works which tease the accepted artifice of photography to forge an appropriated remembrance of German histories. Schorr found drawing a more acute medium to describe events that took place in the neighbourhoods of her childhood, specifically the muscle car counter culture of