London: In the Shadow of Monoliths

In this collection I wanted to photograph an imagined, future London - one where the city’s monoliths of glass and concrete have come alive to assert their malevolent control over the millions of people that live and toil amongst them. Workers either travel in the vast shadows of these buildings, in the tunnels and transport systems that snake below or in the briefest snatches of sun that are yet to be blacked out. Yet in today’s London this is becoming more reality than fiction. The concrete monuments that loom over us are closed off and the open spaces around them are being eroded as public property is sold into private hands and security guards enforce the rules of corporations instead of the laws of the land. Political protest, rough sleeping and even the taking of photographs is banned. Now the only photographers permitted are the CCTV cameras. Over 600,000 of them. One for every 14 people that live here. If you tilt your head and look at the city just right, you can see the light starting to turn to shadow.