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Make do and Mend, Manchester
I began my ongoing project Make do and Mend in Manchester after noticing the amount of discarded broken umbrellas that appeared on the street after rainfall. I began photographing them and later collecting them, taking them to my studio. I realised that most of the umbrellas were cheaply made, the kind you buy in a pound store. Many were not badly broken and just needed minor repairs to function properly again. So I began to repair them, adding an embroidered label, (which read "repaired by Hilary Jack") and then I replaced them where I had found them, finally photographing them again.
I began my ongoing project Make do and Mend in Manchester after noticing the amount of discarded broken umbrellas that appeared on the street after rainfall. I began photographing them and later collecting them, taking them to my studio. I realised that most of the umbrellas were cheaply made, the kind you buy in a pound store. Many were not badly broken and just needed minor repairs to function properly again. So I began to repair them, adding an embroidered label, (which read "repaired by Hilary Jack") and then I replaced them where I had found them, finally photographing them again.
