Wide Angle: Modernist Buildings in Britain Photographed

A photographic tour of Britain’s most celebrated – and divisive – modernist buildings is showing at Gareth Gardner Gallery from 8th April to 8 May. The images are a personal selection by photographer and designer Chris Matthews, who was commissioned to capture more than 300 buildings for the latest book 'Modern Buildings in Britain' by critic Owen Hatherley.

Chris travelled the length and breadth of Britain during the last two years, photographing a vast range of buildings and structures from the Humber and Severn Bridges to the postwar new towns of Cumbernauld and Milton Keynes. The images capture these places in a largely deserted state – the result of the pandemic – providing a unique perspective of Britain’s modernist legacy.