Growing SpacesGrowing Spaces by photographer Chris Hoare is a chronicle of urban land cultivation in Bristol. Since April 2020, Hoare has been slowly and methodically documenting the allotment goers, landscape and seasonal changes across the official and unofficial growing spaces of the city. The resulting photographs, originally commissioned by Bristol Photo Festival, were published in 'Growing Spaces' to coincide with an exhibition of the work at the inaugural

and it was not until he died thirty years later that I once again entered the sheds with a camera

The process of digitising the archive went hand in hand with the creation of a website and the release of images on social media

which in the book is reflected in an alternation between the immediately recorded and the subjective interpretation

exposed by the changes to the urban landscape that epitomised the 1970s and 80s

This book follows the same pattern

including 64 litho-printed reproductions

its large format gives Myers’ images the size and space they deserve

they had largely fallen silent

The text is presented in both Gaelic and English

Living in the United Kingdom from 1959 to 1969

His work is characterised by a quiet observation and singular insight

The book coincided with an exhibition of the work at the Gallery of Photography