Why the brewery?

I initially found the brewery by contacting an urban explorer that I found on Instagram. He had a few images from inside the brewery, these were definitely the images that had most story behind them from all the buildings he looked at. Finding that the brewery was in Lancaster was a bonus as it wasn’t too far away.

I was then able to contact him over a mobile messaging app and asked him for more details about it. He wasn’t overly keen on telling me too much about it at first and was interested to see some of my previous work from the power station first. After sending him images of previous garments, he began to tell me more about the location and what there was to see. Talking to him about what I wanted to achieve he offered to take me and a friend round the building and show us all of its hidden secrets. It was really interesting to have someone who was passionate about exploring show us round. There are always hidden dangers when looking round empty buildings, it was an adventure.

I was able to take lots of images, but after I left I wished I had been able to take more, the images I got didn’t really show off the whole rooms and were more focused on specific objects, which was good, but I wanted a feel of the whole building. I want to return at some point and see what else I can find, taking more photographs is important to me so that I can build up my primary research and have plenty to work with. Primary photos are very important to the basis of my work. I would also like to return to Lancaster as the museum was not open on my first visit.