Me without my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london
Frank’s bar is located at the top of a carpark in Peckham. I went there on a hot summer’s friday night and it was teeming with literally hundreds of people and has one of the most incredible views of London I have seen. And it was proper buzzing. Amazing vibe in a supercool location, although it did take me three trains to get there…which leads me to…
Nowadays when you are in central london at night in places like Soho where the streets were once full of life and are now dead you can’t help but wonder where all the people went and then you come out to a place like this and you go, ahhhh, THIS is where everyone is. Now I understand.
When excessively high rents forced the majority of Londoners out of London a lot got dispersed here there and everywhere but in some places such as Peckham in the South, Walthamstow in the north and Clapton in the East people actually recongregated & built new happening areas, just a lot further out. I grew up in the London suburbs and when I was young your only mission was to claw your way into the middle of the city, get as far in as you can ‘cos that was where all the life was. This seems to have been turned on its head and now everyone (due to financial factors) is heading to the outskirts. Didn’t see that coming…
P.s If you are wondering why this is a drawing and not a photograph, please stay tuned, all will be revealed at the end of the week.