Bleak House

Graeme Webb’s beautiful and emotive images are rooted in his childhood memories of growing up in post-war London. His Bleak House work remembers a bomb site where he once played with his friends. These memories have been lovingly re-constructed as models and dioramas, painstakingly lit and then patiently photographed. This process transforms his ephemeral recollections into three-dimensional objects and finally into captivating photographic images.

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Past history, future history

Paul Tucker has the rare ability to photograph an empty room and make it feel full of people – either past inhabitants or future visitors. His photographs documenting the final days of the Hawker Sidley factory in Walthamstow are alongside the school buildings that replaced it.   Paul’s exquisitely observed and carefully composed images record empty, silent spaces but feel full of noise. By comparing the photographs side by side, you can almost hear the sound of yesterday’s heavy machinery and factory gossip fading in one ear while the clamouring shouts of young children resonate with increasing volume in the other.

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Up West

David Solomons has been photographing the West End of London for almost a decade, creating a portrait of the city that shows its life, optimism, despair and loneliness. His work relies on his perceptive eye and technical command of an old film camera. He roams the street with an obsessive determination, creating images that reveal the heart of London’s West End at its best and at its worst.   David works on the same streets that are relentlessly photographed by tourists, students and amateur photographers, yet his images cut to the heart of London’s soul in a way few others find possible to capture.

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