Tag: Housing
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The battle for the Pullens. June 1986
I’ve recently dug out and scanned these photos I took of the ‘Battle for the Pullens Estate’ 32 years ago. Now a thriving mix of residential and working spaces the Pullens estate came very close to being completely obliterated. On June 10th 1986 squatters attempted to repel police and bailiffs intent on evicting them prior to the […]
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Darbishire Place, Whitechapel
An ongoing commission for Niall McLaughlin Architects: to photograph the flats and residents in this Stirling Prize shortlisted Peabody block. Much architectural photography has an arid and ghostly or post apocalyptic feel. The buildings are presented without people, in creepily perfect weather and light, as though they subsist for and of themselves. We are hard-wired to respond […]