A year indoors outdoors
(2020)
While I’m not a fan of cars per se, I love vintage design. As I flâneused around London in the locked down months of 2020, I noticed, and came to love, how the parked vehicles reflected their neighbourhoods. 70s Rolls Royces littering the back streets of Marylebone, 80s Nissans haunting the Barbican, clamped vans stationed in King’s Cross, Morrises shining in Shoreditch. On these photographs, I appreciate how sweeping curves, strong shapes or stark lines can bestow vehicles with distinct personalities. London’s architecture provides more than just a beautiful backdrop to these characters: it’s the tool that enables the viewer to decode the interrelationship of space, place and object. The linkages in those pairings are palpable: Sometimes, weeks or months later, I happened upon the same vehicle, rephotographing it in a different street, different position or different light, season, or time of day. Comparing those images, the mood is reshaped and construed in new ways.
YIO4574 Monkwell Square
YIO4929 Whitfield Street
YIO5494 Eastcastle Street
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YIO5546 Clipstone Street
YIO5561 Langham Street
YIO5564 Little Titchfield Street
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YIO5694 Gordon Street
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YIO5781 Mercer Street
YIO5792 Mercer Street
YIO5801 Bucknall Street
YIO5937 Weymouth Street
YIO5908 Crawford Street
YIO5930 Beaumont Street
YIO5868 Gloucester Mews
YIO6034 Bolsover Street
YIO6113 Mecklenburgh Square
YIO1977 Mornington Crescent
YIO2038 Newman Street
YIO2032 Eastcastle Street
YIO2022 Berners Street
YIO2074 Rochester Road
YIO6851 Rochester Road
YIO6981 Cleveland Street
YIO7083 Kemble Street
YIO7096 Tavistock Street
YIO2086 Priory Lane, PO19
YIO2249 Riding House Street
YIO2237 Cleveland Mews
YIO6841 Conway Street
YIO7068 Chenies Street
YIO2086 Carburton Street
YIO2768 Litchfield Street
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YIO5522 Eastcastle Street
YIO7638 Brook Street
YIO8962 Ulster Terrace
YIO8911 Endsleigh Street
YIO8017 Scala Street
YIO7892 Savile Row
YIO7311 New Cavendish Street
YIO6928 St Meddans Street
YIO2014 Wardour Street
YIO1905 Cambridge Gate Mews
YIO1758 Great Russell Street
YIO4732 Englefield Road
YIO4741 New North Road
YIO4509 Bedford Street
YIO4471 Mount Street
YIO4416 Store Street
YIO4262 New Cavendish Street
YIO4177 Weymouth Street
YIO3971 Princeton Street
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YIO4167 Wimpole Street
YIO4158 Weymouth Street