A History of Leeds

As my images will be a reprsentation of the city of Leeds it seemed appropriate to research some the city's history and see how it has been documented in the past.

http://www.leodis.net - This website is a photographic archive of Leeds. A project delivered by Leeds Library & Information Service. It has 51, 540 old and new photographs of Leeds. I have chosen some of the most photographed areas of Leeds and the most iconic buildings of Leeds to display on the blog - these have given me ideas about what and where to photograph for my own work.


This is Cuthbert Broderick, the architect of both the Town Hall and the Corn Exchange.



To compare these photographs to Leeds as it is now I also looked at the new corn exchange website (www.cornex.net) and how they had photographed the building for advertising purposes. Flickr was a good research tool to see how other photographers had approached the subject of Leeds, perhaps more artistically.