Shul is a project Eyre has developed to capture and represent Manchester's prostitutes, that live and work in the area. Commonly these areas are on the peripheries of the city which is one reason why her work connects strongly to mine. She wanted to capture and present the life these women lived without actually capturing the women within the photographs, the way she did this was by photographing the areas they worked in. Focusing her gaze on small details such as abandoned condoms, written letters to each other saying where they were going and hangers left on a wall to hang their clothes. This way of working is quite interesting because it makes the viewer create their own narrative to the images, thinking about how and why those objects were left in the way that they were. I feel in some cases these images are more powerful than if she captured the workers, because it makes the viewer think about the small details in the prostitutes lives instead of just focusing on the act of sex. Eyre focuses her photographs on 'out of place' objects which makes the viewer create narrative to the pieces, and allows them to think deeper about the sex trade.
Eyre's 'Shul' connects well with my own because I focus on objects and scenes that are out of place from the norm, such as the fallen over chair or the unusual distance between a mother and daughter. Also my series documents areas that are on the periphery of Swinton. Using Eyre as inspiration I'm going to develop my series to focus more strongly on objects/ scenes that make the viewer think about what happened in the past for it to be left in the way it is now. So I'm going to stop including people in my work, because there won't be any subjects within the photograph it will mean the viewer is the subject which will result in them being able to create their own narrative for the image more easily. This decision is in keeping within the ideas I have shown in my work so far, because its still focusing on the unusual objects and scenes found within Swinton, but its just increasing the focus on the object itself and the narrative to how it got to that place/ position. Not including a subject in my work also connects my project back to the work of Stephen Shore in 'Uncommon Places'.
After looking over my project and the artists I have researched I want to move away from the more industrial periphery areas and focus my gaze more on uncommon objects/ scenes within common residential areas, this is because its more common to find unusual objects in industrial areas, so they are more interesting in residential.