In 2026 a client asked me to photograph the brands and footfall, (people) in the Bullring Shopping Centre, Birmingham.
Here are a selection of the photographs from that project.
While this was a commercial photography job I think it is a good social record of the busy consumer driven shopping centres especially since retail and the high street and many of these brands have suffered and changed so much following the lockdowns in 2020.
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