#nathan downing

Intervention Artifice, Nathan Downing, 2017

The Stratford Shoal, Stratford, London, Nathan Downing, 2016

Summerly House, New Forest, Hampshire, Nathan Downing, 2016

Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Nathan Downing, 2016

The UK’s pub tradition is disappearing at quite an alarming rate, on average 29 pubs are closed in the UK each week. The public house is a big part of our historical culture here in the UK and as these familiar establishments and cultural landmarks, comfortably recognised within our landscape, continue to close, we are at loss of revitalisation. Increasingly, alternative replenishment is becoming the only option for such structures; structures that bare stories of such wildly-history and social poignance. These images document the closed pubs of Southampton for what they are at present, unwillingly re-purposed, a long way from their days as a nation’s second home. Lost but not forgotten are the days of the public house.

Rugby, Nathan Downing, 2015

Nathan Downing, Junk, Southampton, 2015

Nathan Downing, Southampton, 2015 - 35mm film