Tag: The City
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Compliance
Since Covid cases have exploded again, I’ve returned to the City of London for my exercise. The streets are quiet but there is always at least one fugitive figure in view. As we come into proximity, I find myself trying to categorise them: compliant or libertarian, responsible or feckless, aware or oblivious. Will they cross […]
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Hulks
Update. ‘Hulks’ is currently featured in the Architects’ Journal London’s ‘modern’ offices are empty and starting to look like monuments to a bygone era of commuting and communal work spaces. ‘Great, empty hulks as a painful memory of capitalist overreach..’ as Michael Regnier from my agency, Panos, put it when he saw the photos. I […]
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Stay on the bike
During the strict lockdown I attached a camera to my bike on my once a day exercise outings. The rules were:Set the camera to shoot a frame every five secondsCycle for 45 minsTouch nothingStay on the bikeI’ve deliberately left the wonky angles uncorrected to maintain the fugitive, snatched, quality of the photos as I cycle. I’ve also left the […]