Perou/hyde: Tunnel Vision
Perou/hyde: Tunnel Vision Nocturnal scenes of Britain's forbidding, uniquely desolate underpassesYou can almost hear the ominous hum of the broken strip lighting, the knot of fear in the gut. Yet…
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Perou/hyde: Tunnel Vision
Nocturnal scenes of Britain's forbidding, uniquely desolate underpassesYou can almost hear the ominous hum of the broken strip lighting, the knot of fear in the gut. Yet through the lens of celebrated British portrait photographer Perou (born 1970) and the accompanying essay by Karl Hyde (of dance music duo Underworld), their architecture is also elevated to something magnificent, at times even ethereal. These unloved spaces are notoriously menacing, graffiti-ridden, inconvenient.
Perou has now shot over 200 underpasses across England. Shot at night, Perou's images also express the original utopian vision of the New Town planners of the 1960s and '70s.The idea for Tunnel Vision was sparked between friends Perou and Hyde when Perou shot the album cover for Hyde's debut solo album, Edgeland, featuring an underpass at night. The photographs are