It has been ten years since I started photographing the re-development of the Paradise Birmingham area between Centenary and Chamberlain Squares in the heart of the city centre.
Late in 2015 the demolition of the Central Library and Paradise Forum commenced and in February 2016 I started to document the progress with photography.
I have created a set of galleries starting with archive photos of the Central Library that I have taken starting in 1998 together with the demolition in monthly order up to December 2016, please see the link at the bottom of this blog post.
Having started to post these photos on social media I was contacted by a gentleman from Price Waterhouse Cooper in Birmingham inviting me to display my photos of the construction of their new headquarters at Paradise Birmingham, One Chamberlain Square, as a timeline gallery at their current base.
I continued to photograph the construction of the building and was invited by PwC to collaborate on a ‘coffee table’ book about the building using mainly my construction photos.
This was completed in December 2019 and I went to the opening of the building where the book was distributed to lots of people and I got one to take home.
Inspired by this I have continued to create construction photo journals of all the new buildings at the site and will continue to do so. These can be accessed through the link below.
Please use the link at the bottom of this blog post to see the galleries of the demolition of this iconic building.
