Remembering my dad through photos of Hulme’s weird and wonderful nightlife
‘You know how you and your pals are always the coolest, maddest people you know in the world?’
Dear readers — Another day, another government proposal to kind of, sort of make HS2 happen. More about the prospect of “HS2 light” among less positive transit news is in your briefing below, followed by a lovely chat between Mollie and the photographer Anni Kay. Anni developed her love of documentary photography after losing her dad when she was 17, moved by the way photos could “trigger something in your brain to recall things that might have been lost to you” without them. The memories she preserves these days? Being out and about in Hulme with her friends: local punks, queers, anarchists, and other “weird one[s]”.
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