The freedom of the city
The Manchester Syndicate, as the name suggests, is by no means set in an English idyll. The rolling countryside of the latter is here swapped for the metropolitan skyline of central Manchester and the built-up expanse of Rochdale. The shoot’s setting can best be described as unique, made up of the few remaining blocks of green space that are surrounded by the endless housing developments, A roads, motorways and industrial parks of Greater Manchester.
The syndicate is now in its seventh season, having come to fruition after the founding members — who had been Guns on various shoots, mostly in and around south Cumbria — decided that the logistics of managing a place nearly two hours away had become too difficult and it was time to find a suitable venue closer to home.
Blank canvas
The members approached a local dairy
