Sheffield's Heart of Steel

A fund-raising initiative for research into cardiovascular health/disease.
This sits in one of the Meadowhall shopping mall indoor 'streets', though in the fullness of time the intention is to incorporate it into a much larger and more ambitious outdoor sculpture.  
Meanwhile, people donate and in return, they can arrange for a loved-one's name to be inscribed on one of the panels. I needed to reshoot two of the panels, having been asked to make some images for a Photo Society contact whose Dad's name is there. It's there twice, once for the date of his heart transplant and a second time for the date of his death, many years later.  I'd already had one go at this last week, but wasn't satisfied with some of the images. 
These panels were hard to photograph well.... tiny print on curved and shiny steel surfaces. I faffed around quite a lot, trying to get it right. As I was crouching to focus on the second of the panels, placed low down and overshadowed, a very friendly security guard came along to check that I wasn't taking any photos of the mall more generally.  Shopping centres like Meadowhall are private property and commonly photography is forbidden. I have no idea why; how is this different from street photography in the open air? Ah well, no point ranting. I get the point that these formerly 'public' spaces are now thoroughly privatised.  Grr.  At least this chap was friendly and respectful of what I was doing. 
On that note, about privatisation, we have been watching Adam Curtis' documentary series 'Shifty'.  I really recommend it (it's on the BBC iPlayer). It's his take on the changes in UK life towards the end of the 20th century. He has a very particular style: no spoken commentary, but instead a narrative woven together from documentary footage, interspersed with occasional written captions. Some of the latter are a bit crude politically, but the visual material is fantastic. It ranges from professional journalistic sources to home videos - a testament to the extraordinary amount of research that he and his team must have done.