Documentary Photography • Manchester • 1980s
Adam T. Burton photographed Manchester during the 1980s, with particular focus on Hulme, where he lived on John Nash Crescent from 1984 to 1987. His photographs document the Crescents, their residents, political campaigns and the everyday conditions of life in an area undergoing rapid social change.
Alongside his Hulme work, Burton photographed demonstrations and anti-deportation campaigns, including the Viraj Mendis Defence Campaign, for which he became an active photographer. His archive brings together housing, politics, music and daily life, shaped by direct experience of the places and communities he was photographing.
British Culture Archive represents this work by Adam T. Burton across print editions and image licensing.