Streets Dissolve

Using a Holga Camera, Bec Garland has taken haunting photos of the sites where Engels and the Burns sisters used to live in Manchester. The Holga gives the images their distinctive diffuse edge, creatively suggesting the dissolution that these streets have experienced in the 150 years since Engels lived there: an archaeology of memory layered onto buildings past and present.

Sisters of Industry

Bec Garland has joined the Ruinous Recollections project. Bec works in the space between image and text, juxtaposing photography, word and illustration. Looking at the spectral sites where Manchester-Irish factory girls Mary and Lizzie Burns lived with Friedrich Engels in Manchester, her artworks will aim to discover imaginary spaces and dialogues hidden beneath the current city.