Looking around Glossop for images for my “Square Mile” assignment, I visited the derelict site of the Howard Town Mills and the Hawkshead Mill in Old Glossop, and took a number of photographs while I was there and it is only on re-examining these images and re-reading my post on Drosscapes that I realised how similar some of my images are to those I referred to in this post.
The most striking similarity is between the compostion used by Katherine Westerhout, in her images of Yonkers Power Station and Palace Theater.
and some of these of the derelict mills:
All the images look into the derelict spaces and have strong lines of vertical and horizontal drawing the viewer into the space. I had seen Westerhout’s images before taking these, but only now have been aware of how I was influenced by them.
Andrew Procter 