Here i have changed my idea to do a cryptic tour of London through my eyes. I plan to do this through fashion illustrations and photography.
Here are my chosen images.
Birdcage
I came across this large birdcage in the marylebone area of London whilst looking for the Paul Noble exhibtion. It was around 20 feet tall and glowed different colours and you were able to step in and out of it. I chose this photograph because i like the sense of the mystical birdcage with the anguish in the background like the dull sky and the crane.
Tower Blocks.
I was actually walking somewhere near my house when i found these tower blocks looking for a forest. I was fascinated by these urban tower blocks and the burnt out window the right one has. It remind's me of a cover of an old streets album i used to listen to when i was younger which made it feel quite familiar which is i think why i liked it so much. I am defiantly going to go back to this spot when the weather changes to take another picture and see how it compares. It will be interesting to see if the room is still burnt out.
Mirror Mirror
This is another spot I found whilst getting lost trying to find the Paul Noble exhibition. I'm pretty sure it's a junk shop and i just snapped it quickly because the man inside was looking at me. I didn't intend to use it for anything in particular i was just messing about taking photographs really but i think it came out really alluring and eerie. It reminded me of something from a horror film so i added a green tint to make it an interesting sort of creepy rather than a slaughter house sort of creepy.
I took this in Shoreditch near Brick lane. Whilst it's an obvious spot for street art and somewhere i often go to take pictures this really caught my eye just because of the huge scale of it. The whole thing said 'Home sweet home less' which you could interpret i guess how you want. I chose to just photograph the 'Home Less' part because I guess I wanted to focus on the fact that people around shoreditch can be so focused on the art culture and what's cool and new forgetting that there is actually a big homelessness problem in London.
I wasn't origionally going to do woods pictures I was going to keep the theme of urban London, but Eric said I should try out some contrastive themes so I looked around for some naturey parts of London. This picture too was taken near my house in Forest Gate (i discovered there actually is a forest, in forest gate) and written on the back of somebodys garage is :
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
which is a poem by Robert Frost.
I really never expected to find this little hidden treasure in a shithole like Forest Gate.
Po-lice
I was walking somewhere near Strand and I stopped to look at protestors and luckily had my camera with me. Shortly followed my lots and lots of riot vans. Do you have nothing better to do mr policeman?
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