Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london
Love will tear us apart again…well, in this case it wasn’t love that tore them apart, it was property developers. This iconic piece of street art years depicting the unconventional romance of The Vision & Scarlett Witch has recently been destroyed. It is no more. It has been reduced to rubble, like everything else in this photograph, to make way for….yup, you guessed it…LUXURY FLATS! Woo hoo! Just what the capital needs…
…apparently the conversion of buildings into luxury flats is reaching such paramount levels that Londoners are afraid to leave their rental homes in case they get converted whilst they are out. Please be vigilant and keep an eye out for any strangers with JCB diggers lurking near your property.
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And in slightly other matters: One or two of you may have noticed I posted up on Saturday my TED talk that I did in Italy on The Death Of Conversation (yes, I am still banging on about it but they invited me so whatcha gonna do?) but it has since been removed from Youtube. I hadn’t actually watched it before I posted it (was a little apprehensive) but after viewing, it has to come down as had some major editing issues but as soon as its fixed it will go up again….apologies if you saw it it already…there is a better version on the way!
You’re welcome…London has changed so much, even in the last 5 years, it is impossible to ignore. The documentation won’t halt the transformation but feel compelled to highlight the devastating impact it is having, as it is radically and rapidly altering the population of the city I live in…
Thank you for this beautiful albeit sad and disturbing depiction of the many (changing) lives of urban change.