Students conducted visual ethnographies in and around areas of Newcastle today, uploading images live to a designated Flickr photostream.

Emergent themes were:

The branding of the city, eg. souvenirs and Newcastle City council logos

Old versus new, with reference to shop fronts mainly, and heritage street furniture

‘Tribes’ and belonging, with reference to exhibitions and signage in the Great North Museum

The Romans, and subsequent touristification and branding of Newcastle as a site of historical importance (plenty of leaflets as supporting evidence!)

Regeneration: images in particular of The BALTIC flour mill.

Greggs: as a way of life.

Multiculturalism: photos from a bilingual bookstore, sightings of Storytime in Arabic, leaflets in Mandarin Chinese.