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Ordinary Places

Ordinary Places was Richard's first colour collection shot between 1986-1991 and it instantly won acclaim with an exhibition at The Photographer's Gallery. The collection has toured around the country exhibiting in many museums and galleries, being appreciated for Richard's unique aspect of capturing England on the brink of change. In 2016, he released a new edition of 25 printed in 11" x 11" to celebrate 30 years of his career.

A photograph of chair which sits in a derelict factory in a colour block blue painted room, the perspective creates depth.
Chair, Northwich, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A hub cap sits in the corner, behind it is a faded brown patterned curtain
Hubcap, Manea, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A few grains of grass contrast against a light blue marked curtain.
Grass - Salt Factory, Northwich, 1987
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Dress I - Post War Prefab, Wisbech, 1993
Dress I - Post War Prefab, Wisbech, 1993
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A purple flowered sofa sits with three red cushions neatly placed and a crocheted antimacassar. The background is a contrasting peach flowered wallpaper.
Couch and Cushions - Post War Prefab, Wisbech, 1993
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. The fenland landscape reflects beyond the room in the mirror on the pink cottage wall adorned by three flat caps
Caps, Manea, 1986
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Inkwell, Manea, 1986
Inkwell, Manea, 1986
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Mirror, Manea, 1986
Mirror, Manea, 1986
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Rayburn, Manea, 1986
Rayburn, Manea, 1986
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Vintage photograph by Richard Heeps. Antique telephone exchange with meter on top in working library.
10 Pence - John Rylands Library, Manchester, 1987
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A frosted bathroom windowsill photographed in 1989 with toiletries sitting on the sill.
Bathroom Windowsill, Isle of Wight, 1989
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A basin, wth gold taps and an oval mirror over the top. There are frosted windows either side of the mirror.
Bathroom Sink, Isle of Wight, 1989
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A kitchen sink from 1989 with brown taps and bowl, and surrounded by three bottles of washing up liquid. The window above the sink looks out on a neat garden and is topped with orange ruched curtains. The wallpaper has a sequence of orange flowers linked with orange ribbon.
Kitchen Sink II, Isle of Wight, 1989
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A chalk board with Work Pending written on the top with dates of 1976 and other chalk notes partially removed. Chalk board hanging on a rough factory wall.
Work Pending - Ice Factory, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. In the library with the books on the shelf behind and in foreground a wooden table with a chair. The table has two easels lined up with the chair, the easel nearest the chair is open.
Book Easel - John Rylands Library, Manchester, 1987
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. The silhouette of a bottle behind a cracked, frosted window pane.
Bottles, Manea, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. Warm-toned bricks and metal pipes with a white taped red downpipe at the photo's centre. Handwriting on the white tape reads Buzzer Was Ear.
Buzzer Waz Ear - Ice Factory, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. Rows of empty blue seats facing side ways on, a Fisherman's Mission badge hangs on the white wall.
Chapel - Fisherman's Mission, Fleetwood, 1986
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A photograph by Richard Heeps depicting a wooden door with a cross on it sitting slightly ajar set in a black and white striped wall. On the left hand side sits local community posters.
Chapel Door - Fisherman's Mission, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A bunch of white carnations in a glass vase together with another bunch of white flowers sit on a windowsill in front of a frosted glass window. The curtains are by contrast deep blue and the wall is a burnt orange colour.
Chapel Window - Fisherman's Mission, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. Daisy's radio in its wooden casing sits in the middle of this photograph. There is a postcard from Largs stuck on the radio speakers and on top of the radio the surface is crowded with houseplants, a phone, a mantel clock and other oddments.
Daisy's Radio I, Cambridge, 1990
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. This 1990s scene has a wooden-cased radio sitting on top of a fridge. The radio is used as a shelf for a dial telephone, a pot plant and various other items. There is a tied-up door curtain to the left and cushions to the right.
Daisy's Radio II, Cambridge, 1990
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A vintage kitchen with an orange door and a plastic cream handle. A door curtain is tied up over to the side of the door. There sits to the right of the door a radio with a postcard from Largs tucked in the front. On top of the radio is a doily on top of which sits a dial phone, carriage clock and houseplant sitting on top of the radio.
Daisy's Radio III, Cambridge, 1990
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A broken drip tray sits in the middle of a wooden slated table.
Drip Tray - Ice Factory, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A selection of different size drive belts hang on a set of nails.
Drive Belts - Maintenance Workshop, Ice Factory, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. This photo from 1986 is taken in a cafe which has a picture of Fleetwood beach erected In Memoriam which hangs next to a picture of Queen Elizabeth II. Below is a shelf with a television and alongside that a radio. In the room are cafe-style plastic seating and chairs.
Fisherman's Mission II, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. Taken in the Fisherman's Mission cafe, on the wall are three portholes in an orange-coloured wooden wall. On the wall is a payphone and this part of the room holds a cafe-style table and chairs, on the table is a yellow ashtray.
Fisherman's Mission I, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A copper-coloured cross is suspended on frosted greenhouse glass, behind the glass there are the vague forms of the greenhouse flowers.
Greenhouse Cross - Fisherman's Mission, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photography by Richard Heeps. Set in a workshop, the central piece is an old log burner. Sitting on its right hand side is a grave stone in memory of Herbert Halstead.
In Loving Memory Of - Stonemason's Workshop, Northwich, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A pot of filleters knives sits in the middle of a brown-mottled glass work surface.
Filleter's Knives, Fleetwood, 1986
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A photograph of a battered coal scuttle on the floor filled with coal, with its wooden handle taped. The coal scuttle sits on grey broken flooring. Photographer Richard Heeps
Coal Scuttle - Stonemason's Workshop, Northwich, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A wooden coat stand with a coat brush hanging from a piece of string.
Coat Brush - John Rylands Library, Manchester, 1987
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. Yellow ramshackled vintage kitchen.
Daisy's Kitchen, Cambridge, 1990
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A wooden dresser with photos, bunches of flowers, candles, ornaments, lamps and a full inbox on top. In front of this busy piece of furniture are clothes laid on a chair, on top a white fur jacket.
Daisy's Front Room II, Cambridge, 1990
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A mantelpiece is in the middle of this photograph with an electric fire sitting in its hearth. The mantelpiece is surrounded and covered by paraphernalia. Above the mantelpiece is a mirror and above that a picture of a black horse. There is a boxed sewing machine in front of the mantelpiece.
Daisy's Front Room, Cambridge, 1990
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A tiled mantelpiece full of paraphernalia from the past: clocks; porcelain animals and curios all seemingly randomly displayed. There is a square mirror over the mantelpiece reflecting the room and on the far right of the photo is a red and white calendar, displaying July 1988.
Daisy's Mantelpiece, Cambridge, 1990
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A close up of a corner of an old, worn, battered, academic book.
Book II - John Rylands Library, Manchester, 1987
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A vintage photograph of a dark wooden key holder carrying a selection of keys and fobs. The holder is fixed on a white-painted wooden slated wall. There is a pencil sharpener attached to the wall also, below the key holder. Photograph by Richard Heeps.
Keys - Cod Liver Oil Factory, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A light blue factory wall with a green milk rack at its centre, with a glass pint of milk and a photo of a woman attached to the back of the milk rack.
Milk Rack - Ice Factory, Fleetwood, 1986
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Kitchen sink 1980's vintage interior square photograph by Richard Heeps.
Kitchen Sink I, Isle of Wight, 1989
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Utility I, Isle of Wight, 1989
Utility I, Isle of Wight, 1989
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A 1980s family utility room with a washing machine, a tumble dryer, brown linoleum and flowery wallpaper.
Utility II, Isle of Wight, 1989
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. Gold taps and hand held shower at the end of a bath. Red toned bottles of shampoo and baby bath contrast against the white bath and white bathroom tiles.
Taps, Isle of Wight, 1989
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. Inside the workshop old doors, bits of wood and corrugated plastic are leaning against the wall. An old door has No.25 printed on it.
No. 25 - Maintenance Workshop, Ice Factory, Fleetwood, 1986
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A photograph from the 1980s, an office with filled shelves which are fixed on bold black and white striped wallpaper. Photograph by Richard Heeps
Office - Fisherman's Mission, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A pencil sharpener is attached to the white part of a two-tone wall. Halfway down the wall turns blue and here is a shelf providing a narrow home to two screw-top jars.
Pencil Sharpener - Cod Liver Oil Factory, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. A well worn aga provides a home for a big steel kettle. Above, is an old boiler.
Range - Fishing Boat, Fleetwood, 1986
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Photograph by Richard Heeps. Small metal sink sits with a metal bowl. The walls are covered with an old cream paint, which has chips and shows signs of decay. A denim shirt hangs on the left hand side.
Sink - Fishing Boat, Fleetwood, 1986
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Interior photograph by Richard Heeps taken in Hong Kong featuring figurines in Tai Chi form sitting on a window sill and veiled by a fine net curtain.
Snake Dips Down, Hong Kong, 1990
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'Rice Bowl' was captured in the final years of British Hong Kong, in a colonial home on the Peak. This delicate still life artwork, made up equally of neutral tones and a beautiful deep green, is a subtle depiction of Yin and Yang.
Rice Bowl, Hong Kong, 1990
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