RAF Aircraft Tail Fin, Museum of Science and Industry Manchester

1 October 2019 · Manchester

Riveted steel panels fill the foreground, the number 60 and French tricolour stripe cutting through the dark grey finish of a wartime fuselage. Shot from below, inside the Victorian ironwork hangar at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, the glazed roof panels diffuse the overcast light into something almost architectural. The aircraft is the subject; the hangar holds it the way a cathedral holds a nave — each structure built to a scale that makes everything else feel smaller.