Sunday 1 January 2012

Shut Down Shops


Peterborough / Feb 2009 / 52 shut down shops on 13 postcards





Cambridge / March 2009 / 68 shut down shops on 17 postcards





Worthing / March 2009 / 90 shut down shops on 30 postcards





Peacehaven / March 2009 / 17 shut down shops on 5 postcards





Newhaven / March 2009 / 21 shut down shops on 5 postcards





Seaford / March 2009 / 24 shut down shops on 10 postcards





Eastbourne / Feb 2009 / 53 shut down shops on 10 postcards





Hastings / April 2009 / 80 shut down shops on 16 postcards





Gibraltar / April 2009 / 72 shut down shops on 18 postcards





Lewes / April 2009 / 25 shut down shops on 15 postcards





Newmarket / May 2009 / 17 shut down shops on 5 postcards





Brighton / June 2009 / 222 shut down shops on 56 postcards




Bognor Regis / June 2009 / 25 shut down shops on 5 postcards





Royal Tunbridge Wells / Aug 2009 / 65 shut down shops on 15 postcards





Bury St Edmunds / Aug 2009 / 53 shut down shops on 10 postcards



The book: 

Store Closing Last Day Sunday Everything Must Go.
15 towns and cities / 884 shut down shops / 220 postcards / 146 pages

25 x 20cm
Hardcover. Imagewrap.

There almost is something fascist about a big shopping mall - the lines of aisles, the slogans, the banners, the pressure to conform.
I can see the sinister possibilities just waiting. It’s not as if the people who go shopping have any other centre to their lives, most of them I suspect don’t. And that’s what worries me.

J.G. Ballard 2006