Being from the North of England, Alasdair McLellan channelled his youthful curiosities into romantic notions of being English and Northern from the moment he began to photograph in 1986. He admires those who have directed generations through their own obsessions, such as Bruce Weber with his playful and sexually charged imagery of America and Morrissey with his unfaltering melancholy and mythological observations, and his work keeps both the edginess of these influences and an unashamedly lyrical pulse. The Northern, working-class aesthetic of Bradford's Buttershaw Estate, immortalised in Alan Clarke's film Rita, Sue and Bob Too!, has a continual pull for him: his photographs play with the tension of the ordinary in the same unselfconscious way as the film's writer, Andrea Dunbar. The monograph is intimate and introspective, edited and designed by the art directors Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag of M/M (Paris).