Polaroids of Filton

I lived at 28th Tenth Avenue in Filton in the first year of university. I cannot lie the place depressed me but it was coupled with the fact I didn't really have any good friends yet, was on a degree I hadn't realised was bachelor of science until I got there and I had far to many x file episodes for someone with the problems I'd just listed. But I did find some pleasure in living there, they have these incredible pylons, I've never really been close to a pylon before living in London, not to the point where I could actually hear them hum and on my cycle ride to university they never ceased to impress me with their massive uncompromising structure. The residents of Filton were all very friendly, I'd found no reason why they shouldn't be. And you had to marvel at the amount of discarded trolleys found in the area. I also found it interesting for photography purposes. It's one of those really mundane, easy to make look like its crap and troubled places. A photographers paradise! But it was equally as easy to make it look pretty as well. 


Me and my housemates George and Alex woke up the morning after it snowned and I remember that a continuous joke was how crap the house was. We snowballed our house for at least half an hour. And put our inflatable sofa in the garden and played like proper kids for a few hours. Not sure if it was the people or the place but that was pure untainted fun. 


Anyway here's some polaroids and SLR photographs I took in my time as a temporary resident of Filton.