{"id":2567,"date":"2020-03-30T15:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cartridgesave.co.uk\/printwhatmatters\/?page_id=2567"},"modified":"2020-03-31T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T08:48:08","slug":"city-life-before-coronavirus-before-photos-of-six-cities-before-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cartridgesave.co.uk\/printwhatmatters\/city-life-before-coronavirus-before-photos-of-six-cities-before-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"CITY LIFE BEFORE CORONAVIRUS: \u2018BEFORE\u2019 Photos of Six Cities Before Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just over 12 months ago one of the UK\u2019s best-known street photographers was joined by hundreds of amatuer photographers in a unique social experiment to capture the spirit of some of the UK\u2019s biggest cities in 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

Building a visual library of what Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool and Newcastle looked like in that day in history, the <\/span>A Day In The Life<\/span><\/em> experiment compiled hundreds of images of the people and places that made those bustling cities tick – from buskers to office workers, students, skateboarders, OAPs, tourists, and many more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today that library provides a stark reminder of what our cities looked like, before lockdown. View the \u2018before\u2019 images of these cities, available for free use, here:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2022\u00a0 Manchester images (from 1st April 2017): Click <\/span>here to view the album<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Bristol images (from 19th August 2017): Click <\/span>here to view the album<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Glasgow images (from 7th April 2018): Click <\/span>here to view the album\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Liverpool images (from 28th October 2018): Click <\/span>here to view the album\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Newcastle images (from 23rd March 2019): Click <\/span>here to view the album\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Cardiff images (from 28th September 2019): Click <\/span>here to view the album<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The experiment has huge poignance today. Describing why it was created in the first place, event organiser, Ian Cowley of Cartridge Save, explained: \u201cThere project was created because we recognised the potential to capture some amazing images, pictures that would last for years to come as a snapshot of the city on that particular day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLife is fast, nowhere more so than in cities. That\u2019s what made A Day In The Life so appealing – we were taking moments in time and freezing them. Little did we imagine that only a few months later, life in cities would be put on pause.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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