88 monochrome photographs available as 75x50cm prints.

The photographs were taken on a Linhof Super Technika MkV with 90mm and 135mm lenses using Kodak sheet format 5”x4” High-Speed Infrared Film 4143 (discontinued 2000) and hand printed by the photographer. The large format sheet negatives have now been digitised, some have been recovered which could not previously be printed.

This series of views of London were taken in the late 1980s and are designed to make us think afresh about the city, to remind us that the sun does shine and people do go out, that despite a Victorian hangover we are a European City. I have renamed the city for the 21st century and photographed it on large format Infrared film. By changing the tonality in this way, that which is commonplace once more becomes mysterious and exciting. The city is being seen through a different filter and so becomes renewed, as it is rebuilt around us.

In this process I have not tried to hide the sometimes harsh reality but to leaven it with the art of photography, so that for example Trellick Towers, which could be seen as a nightmarish tower block, becomes a proud monument watching over the city, a part of it's iconography. The city is glowing with life and changing before our eyes, just open them.

Foreign yet familiar, this is the zone of Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Apollinaire’s eponymous poem. It simultaneously celebrates the new out-door cafe culture and examines the yuppie worship of mammon. Meanwhile the youth are creating their own scenes amid the Victoriana, as the glass facades arise around them. We are shining with our ambition. Until we get to Kensal Green we are not dead yet.