Eye On Manchester blog by Aidan O’Rourke Tutor Photographer

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In today’s Independent newspaper, my photograph of an anti-congestion charge poster, taken at the Trafford Centre last year, appeared as part of an article by Paul Vellely about Manchester’s congestion charge referendum.

My photographs are used frequently in various media. The deputy picture editor at the Independent in London found the photograph after doing an internet search. She contacted me by phone yesterday, we agreed a price, and I e-mailed the photo by return.

I am interested in all aspect of transport in the Manchester area. I also regularly photograph billboard posters, as I find many of them interesting and worth documenting. This was one of the first anti-congestion charge posters to appear. I will be photographic a cross-section of the pro and anti-congestion posters, which can be seen by the side of roads across Greater Manchester in the run up to the referendum.

Go to the Independent website to read the article online – The article includes the pro-congestion charge poster which appeared in print, but not my photograph.

This morning I did my third monthly television interview on the Channel M Breakfast Show. The topic of conversation was the BDP building and Piccadilly Basin.

To find out more about Channel M, Manchester’s dedicated tv station, go to www.channelm.co.uk.

I have taken a high resolution dusk cityscape of Manchester from the roof of the MEN Arena.

It’s a commercial job for a high profile client. I can’t display the photograph, as it’s exclusive. More to be revealed in due course.

Here’s a photo I took just after the shoot, looking south west towards Salford.