Over 128 pages with 67 colour plates, Clayton’s work is classic social documentary. Capturing the ‘everyday’ on a housing estate in the early 1990’s, the stage he presents is a moment in time - the decline and destruction of such estates is underway just as the ideology of the welfare state that created them was being dismantled too. We are taken on a journey from a distant view, around streets and communal areas and then inwards into the homes of residents, from wide vistas to architectural detail. ‘Estate’ is a compelling, sensitive and enlightening narrative illustrating a moment in time in the British urban landscape.
