Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
The Essence Of The Image
I have suitcases full of old photographs – my lost images collection – and sometimes, when I’m sorting through them, one will shout out at me. It’s not who the people are (I don’t know them) or what they’re doing; it’s the very essence of the image itself. The lines and shapes ask questions; the light and shadows hint at answers.
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View From St Thomas’s
Those of us who spend our lives looking at pictures of old Halifax have a range of potential dating pointers: Is Square Church still a church, or just a spire? Is the…
Frightening
Artificial intelligence took one of my photographs of North Bridge and Burdock Way in Halifax and did this with it. It’s frightening. The problem is, it’s frighteningly good.
Green Change
Whenever I revisit one of my old photographs, I can never resist the temptation to seek out a modern view of the same scene to see what has changed. With this view…
This Is Bradford
This is Vine Street in the Great Horton district of Bradford. My father grew up a few streets away; my mother grew up a few more streets away in the…
Green Clough
I took this photograph of Dean Clough in Halifax back in 2017. The profusion of green vegetation provides a date stamp: fifty years earlier, the buildings would have been the…
Happy Birthday Roger
A photograph taken in a Bradford back yard more than three-quarters of a century ago. It features me sitting on my mother’s knee, watched over by my brother, Roger. Next…
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