A while back over a beer, Eamon and I discussed going to one of the London markets to take some photographs. The big markets in town are daunting in their size and business and the characters that inhabit them are larger than life, often foul-mouthed and frankly terrifying. Which is to say that they’d make [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Right on the banks of a peninsular in the River Lee, and yards from the Thames opposite the Millennium Dome is an old vegetable oil refinery owned by Pura. Since 2005 it’s been under a slow process of demolition. With every month that passes the place looks even more derelict, broken pipes, heat stained metal, [...]
Storyzine submission
16Aug06I am fascinated by the proximity in which the rich and poor live their lives. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cities around the world where wealthy boroughs are separated from the destitute by sometimes little more than a single road. This photograph was taken in East London across the road from Canary [...]
