Portrait of Tim Mills in the Cov Connect store on Hales Street

Date:
26 Sep 2022
Location:
1 Hales Street, Coventry
Reference:
HEC01/128/01/03/02/03
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

In 2022-23 Historic England commissioned several photographers to work with local communities to capture images representative of their local high streets. This formed part of the Picturing High Streets project. In Coventry, Tim Mills was commissioned as photographer. He wrote the following text to describe his work on the project: "Operating within a small, localised geographic area, I have spent a year working alongside local communities in The Burges, one of the few traditional historic high street areas surviving in Coventry.

"Informed by industries that defined the city of the past and those that shape it today, I have explored the exchange of goods and services by engaging with shop owners and the wider community in photographic acts and workshops, harnessing the skills and expertise of local businesses to create the art works. Using photography, textiles and performance, I have produced a range of small, experimental studies and collaborative outcomes featuring multiple authors and voices." This submission was split into three parts. This image is part of the submission, 'Collaborative Portraits', a series of portraits of Tim Mills in different locations around The Burges. The photographer wrote the following text to describe this part of the project: "Using a secondhand DSLR camera purchased from Cash Generator on Trinity Street, opposite the HAZ, I directed a series of collaborative portraits. For this series, I had my hair cut by Deebo at Sky Barber on The Burges, with the style chosen by pupils from the Sidney Stringer Academy in Coventry. These pictures are documents of individual workshops I conducted with shop owners, with a visual outcome produced by the participant during the workshop, in which I as the artist engage with the goods and services they provide.

Once the project was complete, the DSLR camera was sold back to Cash Generator." 'Picturing England's High Streets' commissioned by GRAIN, Historic England and Photoworks.

'Collaborative Portraits' by Tim Mills, with contributions from Zachary, Joe, Aziza and Jaspel.

Content

This is part of the Job: HEC01/128/01/03/02 Collaborative Portraits; within the Volume: HEC01/128/01/03 Picturing High Streets Photographer Residencies - Tim Mills: Coventry; within the Sub Series: HEC01/128/01 Picturing High Streets: Photographer Residencies; within the Series: HEC01/128 Picturing High Streets; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

Rights

© Tim Mills

People & Organisations

Creator of Archive: Mills, Tim

Keywords

People Posed, Shops And Shopping