The project focuses on small family shops based in Warrington market, which have had an impact upon both the community and history and have been a part of the landscape for decades.

The aim of this project was to portray the everyday life of these shop holders in their natural settings but also to describe the landscape (excluding human figures) as a metaphor for each family shop, carrying the strong suggestion that this is where the most intimate moments have been lived.

The project is not intending to be an analysis of the market landscape, but more of a lyrical portrait of it is scenery and people in the way I experienced it through my lens.

During my research I have found that Warrington Market does not have the same character which it had in the past, but a number of characters from the past still remain in the building.

Today's market is mainly comprised of people whose notions of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.