View #1 (Birmingham – Bull Ring) is a set of six photographs (each 21 x 28 cm) on archival paper, accompanied by an audio track. Birmingham is a major city in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom. The Bull Ring is one of the city’s oldest and busiest commercial centres, combining historic market spaces with modern retail architecture. It captures Birmingham’s evolving identity and the energy of its urban life.

View #1 (Birmingham – Bull Ring) is part of Baptist Coelho’s ongoing multimedia series View, which explores the shifting relationship between people and their environments, capturing the tension and flow of shared public spaces. The aerial vantage point of the series invites the viewer to see from a new perspective, transforming familiar scenes into unexpected views. With each location captured in six photographs, the work echoes the idea of ‘Six Degrees of Separation’, suggesting that people from different backgrounds may still be connected in unexpected ways. A six-minute soundscape, recorded alongside the photographs, draws the viewer in with ambient sounds that evoke a sense of place and connection.