Empty London Book

72 images | Created: 16 Feb 2010

Originally inspired by the apocalyptic vision of a depopulated British capital portrayed in the 28 Days Later film, this photographic project explores London like most have never seen it before.

As this city never sleeps, these pictures took several years to complete and involved two Christmas Days, many early mornings, all-night scouting trips and countless missed opportunities.

The result is eerie, quiet, beautiful and - I believe - hitherto unseen. It is the...
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Originally inspired by the apocalyptic vision of a depopulated British capital portrayed in the 28 Days Later film, this photographic project explores London like most have never seen it before.

As this city never sleeps, these pictures took several years to complete and involved two Christmas Days, many early mornings, all-night scouting trips and countless missed opportunities.

The result is eerie, quiet, beautiful and - I believe - hitherto unseen. It is the absence of life that makes these otherwise ordinary images into something special.

The life they don't show accentuates how busy and bristling with life London usually is. Thus these empty city scenes turn into pictures of the imagination, even of a state of mind. The photos may even be regarded as an expression of an inner vision of available space which in daily life is noisy, contested and crowded.

Whichever approach may relate to you, I hope you enjoy this view of London without anyone in it.

Enjoy the silence.
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