Category: Urban
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Tourists taking holiday snaps in Trafalgar Square, in central London. An infrared photo created with a full-spectrum camera and filters (B+W KB-20, Yellow) to simulate the classic Kodak Aerochrome infrared colour film stock.
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Worthing Pier at sunset, with the sun barely hanging on at the horizon. The pier was opened in 1862, and the amusements arcade that’s in the middle of the pier was opened in 1935. The ‘Amusements’ sign was featured on the cover of Gene’s 1996 album To See The Lights, although then it said ‘New…
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Broadband engineers running new fibre-optic cable in Carnaby Street, in London’s West End. Fellow photographer Frode Hegland is chatting with them. Shot with a 550nm ‘Autochrome’ IR filter, simulating the appearance of the legendary Kodak Autochrome colour IR film. (Then processed with further custom tweaks.)
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Cobbles used to be the main way streets were paved, an approach to road construction that arrived in Britain with the Romans. The results were highly durable but bumpy, and almost all of these have been replaced or covered over with tarmac. However, some small side streets and alleys around the country still have their…
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Candid portrait of a man relaxing in front of a street mural, in Tooting, South London. I was taking photos nearby and he called out and said “take my picture.” I was happy to oblige, and the second person sitting facing away quietly completes the composition.
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A poster seller in the street in Tooting Broadway, in London. Posters are taped up on the shuttered front of a Wilko store that is waiting for redevelopment.
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A sunny afternoon on Worthing Pier, late summer 2025. The pier was built in 1862, making it well over a century and a half old, and it is a Grade II listed structure. 742nm clip filter