Colatron

Colatron is a Birmingham-based photographer whose work documents the raw, unvarnished underbelly of the city he calls home. With a lens trained on graffiti culture, derelict architecture, and forgotten corners of the urban sprawl, his images capture the tension between past vitality and present decay. Drawing influence from the graffiti writers who navigate the city’s margins, Colatron offers a perspective shaped by movement, memory, and subcultural reverence.

His practice is rooted in a deep fascination with urban history, the “hustle and bustle” of once-thriving spaces now left to crumble. Whether it’s a tagged alleyway, a boarded-up pub, or a half-demolished factory, Colatron’s photographs ask us to look again at what we’ve chosen to forget.

Working with both modern and analogue equipment, including Hasselblad, Mamiya 645, and Intrepid 4x5 film cameras, he brings a tactile, time-warped quality to his images. This hybrid approach allows him to document Birmingham’s overlooked spaces with both immediacy and depth, preserving fleeting moments in formats built to last.

Based in the heart of Birmingham, Colatron shoots almost exclusively in and around the city, building a visual archive of its shifting identity, one frame at a time.

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