PHOTOGRAPHY|WRITING|CREATIVE WRITING|LONDON
Shooting London
A city in black and white.
The capital and its churches
Like a set of Russian dolls, this section is begetting even more sub-sections. At the beginning there was just the desire to photograph the London I’ve come to fall in love with after so many years living here. Then, it occurred to me that a black and white Big Smoke would present a different challenge to me and proposition to readers. Now, there’s yet another iteration to this series: I’ve started snapping churches.
The atheist who takes photos of churches. That could well be the title of a story originally written by Gabriel García Márquez and adapted for the big screen by Fernando Birri.
But Gabo is no longer amongst us and I never met Birri. Still, I do like photographing churches, both the interior and the exterior of them. And last time I checked I was still an atheist.
Behold, now, readers, the birth of a sub-sub-section! Are you paying attention, D. W. Griffith? At least my project doesn’t big up the Klan.
St Peter de Beauvoir Town (photo above), in Hackney, kicks off this series within a series within a series. This church was built in 1841 to “enhance and add lustre to the new estate” of de Beauvoir Town, as…
