“When I came to Sheffield, you could really see the changes taking place,” John Darwell recalls. “Whereas prior to that when I was in Manchester, I wasn't really aware of that change. It was more a process of atrophy. Everything was kind of stuck.” Darwell, a photographer from Bolton, is describing the moment in which he first arrived in the city: 1988, when Sheffield was undergoing a metamorphosis. It was coming out of a period that had been defined by political turmoil, unemployment and deindustrialisation and undergoing not only a facelift but a cultural makeover.
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