CJ: FEATURES; PACO POYATO 'THE INVISIBLE WALL' BERLIN 2021

Featuring Paco Poyato

CJ: I have followed Paco’s work on Instagram for some time now, loving his portraiture and eye on life. Paco showed me his recent work ‘ The Invisible Wall’ Which was made whilst a resident artist with GlogauAIR Berlin. We are living in a time when borders are closing for various reasons, physical walls may have been torn down but invisible ones still exist. It’s a joy to edit and share Paco’s work. His eye for color and portraiture is bang on point. Would be so good to see this work in a photobook.

THE INVISIBLE WALL / BERLIN 2021

PP: 31 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The political, ideological, and in some cases physical frontier not only divided Germany but the entire world into two axes; one of capitalist character and his nemesis, the communist.

Today the physical Wall does not exist, but there is an invisible one that continues to divide the country, and it can be measured in wages, infrastructure, education, unemployment; political and economic differences that tip the balance in favor of the West.

A barrier that has been reinforced thanks to the global financial crises that have occurred in recent years, widening the gap between rich and poor, ending the so-called middle class.

The idea behind this work is to attest to this reality that is still in force today, through the study of the landscape, both urban and human, to show that division that is still latent between the western and eastern parts of Berlin, taking the German capital as an example of what is happening in the country.

There is one of those iconic moments of the fall of the Wall with which we can make an analogy of the events that occurred since its demolition until today; This is the song that David Hasselhoff sang on 1989 Christmas Eve at the Brandenburg Gate -on the East side of Berlin, a few weeks after the work to tear down the Wall began-, which announced that change and airs of freedom yearned for by the inhabitants of the GDR, and at the same time, like an oracle, predicted what was going to be the destiny of its inhabitants from this moment on.

The song was “Looking for Freedom”, and it had a chorus for its banner, which said ...

I’ve been looking for freedom. I've been looking so long

I've been looking for freedom

Still, the search goes on

As we can see, to this day that "searching for freedom" is still underway, since the change has not been as expected, at least for the inhabitants of the former GDR.

Paco Poyato Spain-based visual artist working in photography. The themes of his works share an interest in issues related to the current consumer society and globalization. His aim being reflecting how these two concepts alter his closest reality, understanding globalization as the loss of the individual’s identity, in favor of a model that responds to criteria closely linked to the control of power and banality.  To date his work specializes in delving into the reality of different human groups that are created around a common cause that identifies them as such. A vision characterized by photographing human collectives that have shared common experiences that, in some way, serve to build, mark and also define the individual identity of its members.  

https://stillthesearchgoeson.tumblr.com/

Puschkinallee, Alt-Treptow, Berlin, (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Ernst-Thälmann-Park, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Karl-Marx-Straße, Neukölln, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Warschauer Straße, Friedrichshain, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Objet Trouvé, Wedding, Berlin, (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Tempelhofer Feld, Tempelhof/Neukölln, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstraße, Kreuzberg, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Alte Jakobstraße, Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Panoramapunkt, Alte Potsdamer Straße, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Objet Trouvé, Schöneberg, Berlin, (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Friedrichstraße, Mitte, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Kurfürstendamm, Charlottenburg/Wilmersdorf, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Skalitzer Straße, Kreuzberg, Berlin (2010) Copyright Paco Poyato

Bornholmer Straße, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin (2021) Copyright Paco Poyato

Objet Trouvé, Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2021 Copyright Paco Poyato

Hardenberg Straße, Charlottenburg, Berlin, 2021 Copyright Paco Poyato

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CJ: FEATURES; OLIVER BEER, OMAS KITCHEN FLOOR , Linoleum floor worn over four decades

I started photographing discarded objects in 2015, I’m fascinated by the traces of the life that’s often found on them, the life they once lived, the marks, the patterns, the dirt, and fingerprints. I feel I can sense something when photographing let’s say an extremely old hoover, carpets, broken ovens, old televisions, sofas, old fridge freezers that have not been cleaned, the inside still mucky with old food stains, discarded worn-out shoes, half-eaten sandwiches, a blood-stained coat, debt letters, and the list goes on! I sense the owners they once belonged to and can imagine all the possible life stories.  

I have started to realize I’ve always noticed the details of the wear and tear of life. My childhood home was a flat within a regency townhouse in 1980s Brighton. The only one in the street that hadn’t had its frontage restored, it was covered in peeling paint and really stood out against all the other regency cream-painted buildings. Inside was also worn and torn and whilst growing up, I was hyper-aware of the building’s general state of disrepair and signs of use by other tenants. It was very different from my school friend’s houses; I had a love-hate relationship with it. Looking back, it was a beautiful home. My mum did her best to make it so.

I spotted Oliver’s work whilst researching and it immediately resonated with me, the marks his grandmother had made on her lino, all the twists, and turns of her life lived within her kitchen.

Thank you, Oliver, for allowing me to feature your work. It’s one of the best things I have seen in a long time.

"Oma was the name Oliver Beer called his grandmother. She put the lino down in the 1960’s and over four decades her feet gradually wore through the decorative pattern. Over the years marks appeared in front of the oven, the sink, the front door, where she turned around in front of the fridge, where she sat at her table shuffling her feet. Like a drawing made over forty years, these worn patches describe half a lifetime of movement. The earliest work that Beer still exhibits, this object preempts his work with architectural space and transformed readymades." www.oliverbeer.co.uk

Oliver Beer Oma's Kitchen Floor, 2008 Linoleum kitchen floor worn over four decades 511 x 350 cm Collection of the artist. Image © Oliver Beer

CJ: FEATURES; ZAK WATERS, LIFE'S A BALL 90S, KICKSTARTER.

I work with contemporary documentary photography and curate DOCUMENTING BRITIAN I also have a big passion for older work, Zak sent me some images from his time working in the 1990s documenting football fans. I loved reviewing the work, all the detail in the photos, the stories, and being taken back to the 1990s. Waters worked alongside Ivor Baddiel gathering photos and stories.

He’s now looking back and putting together a fantastic book that celebrates die-hard football fans, people full of passion for the game for whom football is everything. Collaborating with a brilliant book/zine publishing house Fist Ful of Books who publish and support documentary photography. They have some great publications under their belt. Getting documentary photography published can be really hard and Simon Robinson at Fist Ful is pushing ahead and smashing down some walls to get work seen and onto people’s bookshelves.

#groundhoppers Groundhopping is a hobby that involves attending matches at as many different stadiums or grounds as possible.

It would so good if they could reach their goal! #lifesaball #zakwaters #football #footballfans #fistfulofbooks

Hit the link LIFE’S A BALL

KICKSTARTER

Dave Burnley, Burnley, LIFE’S A BALLL by Zak Waters 90s. KICKSTARTER

Ted Ditton, West Ham, LIFE’S A BALL 90s by Zak Waters KICKSTARTER

Doris and Norman Binns at Home, Bradford City Supporters. LIFE’S A BALL 90s By Zak Waters KICKSTARTER

The Charlesworths, Aston Villa, LIFE’S A BALL 90s By Zak Waters KICKSTARTER

Diane Anderson with a life size cut of Stuart Peace, Nottingham Forest, LIFE’S A BALL 90s by Zak Waters KICKSTARTER

Helen Randell, Torquay, Life Size Cut Out, Ruud Gullit, LIFE’S A BALL 90s by Zak Waters KICKSTARTER

Mick Norton, Lincoln City, LIFE’S A BALL by Zak Waters 90s. KICKSTARTER

Dave Downs, Shirt Wash. LIFE’S A BALL, 90s By Zak Waters KICKSTARTER

Scotland v England, Orkney Islands, Euro 1996, Pissing on an English Flag, LIFE’S A BALL 90s By Zak Waters. KICKSTARTER

SOMEONES RUBBISH / DOCUMENTING BRITAIN: PODCAST, IDLE HANDS SOCIETY

My first podcast! I was really nervous, but now happy I took the plunge! It was fun to do and felt more like a chat between creative friends. It has left me wanting to do more. Thank you for having me on your show Dan and Paul. IDLE HANDS SOCIETY PODCAST

In today’s episode, Dan & Paul talk to the photographer curator of Documenting Britain and Photographer, Chloe Juno. We talk about the beginnings of Chloe's 'Someone's Rubbish' project. all our struggles at school, Paul's description of living with ADHD, how Chloe's career lead her to where she is now, what it's like working in an agency, the drug-like nature of social media, how Instagram can be a useful tool, worrying less about the rules, the past and future of supporting and inspiring young creatives, Chloe's tiny joy's, the lost art of real conversation, documenting history, knowing when a project is finished, a little advice for people submitting work and how Documenting Britain is inclusive, and mentality of street photography versus documentary photography. Idle Hands Society Podcast - A community for creatives.

Chloe Juno - False Teeth, Someone's Rubbish.

SOMEONES RUBBISH: TIGHTS, ARTIST TO STUDY, FIVE QUESTIONS

2nd year fine art student Jess Phillips at NPTC contacted me as one of her chosen artists to study, she is working on her own project ‘Litter and Plastic’ she had five simple questions to ask , it was fun to answer and also to see how she has been really looking it my work and using it for inspiration for her work.

Jess shared with me the notes she made whilst looking at all the objects I photograph. I was blown away, it’s like she has sat inside my crazy brain, seeing how she has been really studying and looking at my work also how she writes about how one’s eye travels around the object it’s exactly how my eye and brain works when I am out making the ‘SOMEONES RUBBISH’ photos.

Notes, Jess Phillips looking at SOMEONES RUBBISH by @chloejuno

@earth_roots on Instagram Her project ‘Litter and Plastic’

JP: Why have you chosen to photograph litter?

CJ: I didn’t really start out choosing litter it was more an organic process. Spotting small things on the street that interested me. I loved the fact I could really zoom in and look closely at an object on with my phone camera. My camera allowed me flexibility. My professional work back ground and personal passion is working within documentary photography and social history looking at everyday life and objects. I started to look for more objects, I have been enjoying a way to document the everyday..

JP: What emotions do you feel while seeing litter on the streets?

CJ: I love this question! sometimes I’m just walking and spot something and feel a bit of a buzz / tingle to look further so I photograph the object.. sometimes I walk and walk to find things that fit into the over all picture I’m building. I often go into bit of a zone like I’m really focused, like I’ve just landed here and seeing things for the first time whilst also remembering things that maybe I have used in the past or relate in some way. Some things I find make me feel happy as I can feel a happy lived experience other things can make me feel sad..

JP: Is your work a stand on our litter problem?

CJ: No not really it’s more story telling like a street museum / imagine it’s like an archeology project looking at now. It does also address a litter issue but that’s not the overall aim of the work.

JP: What pieces of litter do you think is the most and least visually appealing/ interesting and why?

CJ: I guess I find all the litter / rubbish appealing in some way even stuff that’s perceived as disgusting as it’s all a part of us, represents us and the life we live now.

JP: If you could describe your work in 5 words what would they be?

CJ: It is not necessarily rubbish

Last question was hard, but it fits, as the work is about more than just rubbish
Does this all help. I’m dyslexic so beware of spelling CJ

JP: Thank you so so much! All of your answers are interesting and inspiring. I can’t wait to put your viewpoints and answer to work within my project! Your patients and kindness has been much appreciated and I’m very grateful you were so willing to help.

Thanks again! Jess Phillips

Tights, Someones Rubbish, Brighton and Hove, 2020

Ciggertett Butts, Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton and Hove. Notes Jess Phillips

Inked up Litter by Jess Phillips

Inked up Litter by Jess Phillips

CJ: FEATURES; SARAH HOLLAMBY, LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTHACHE 2020

“During the start of Covid-19 my dad's girlfriend Fran had non-stop toothache and was badgering my Dad to pull it out for her. He declined almost every time, but her wining got the best of him. After 6 cans of Carling, they were both ready to take it on. With his hand and two pulls her rotten tooth came out swiftly. These are probably the only photos I've captured where I can genuinely feel the atmosphere of the room”. Sarah Hollamby

First lockdown dentists were closed, I had to sort out my own temporary filling, I explored the world of home dentistry, this is something people do anyway due to financial constraints. I found DIY tooth repair kits like Dentak and Toofy Pegs, also lots of you tube videos on how to fix your own teeth. I searched high and low for home repair kits as many shops had sold out. My neighbour had fixed her own crown and was willing to share her last bit of tooth putty with me, in the end I managed to find a pack. When I saw this brilliant set of photos by Sarah of her dad’s girlfriend tooth situation I felt her pain, it could have been me! Chloe Juno

I follow Sarah’s work and really love her eye on the world, instagram SAZHOLLAMBY

LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTHACHE Photography Copyright Sarah Hollamby

LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTHACHE Photography Copyright Sarah Hollamby

LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTH ACHE Photography Copyright Sarah Hollamby

LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTHACHE Photography Copyright Sarah Hollamby

1M JABS A DAY, THE SUN, IMPERIAL ARCADE BRIGHTON, 2021. CJ STREET PHOTOS

My local alterations shop is being refurbished and I love the fact they have pasted all the pages of The Sun newspaper all over their windows. Getting back into the habit, making sure my 35mm comes out with me everyday.

Western Road Brighton, Chloe Juno 2021

CHLOE JUNO CURATING: DOCUMENTING BRITAIN: GRAFTER MAGAZINE

Just seen today, that the work I do curating over on @documentingbritain and ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ has been written about in a brilliant new magazine https://www.graftermagazine.co.uk/ Instagram @grafter thank you Colleen! Grafter featured nine stand out people or collectives who are really opening up various discussions.

“ Something particularly engaging about Documenting Britain is the pure simplicity of it. The brilliance surrounding that simplicity. Taking photographers from all walks of life in Britain. Documentary Photography at its finest. A range of ages and backgrounds.” Editor Colleen Considine

Documenting Life / Brutal People. Real Opinion. 

As political activist Martin Burke said, it's for the "change makers."

‘The working classes for too long have simply been passed off as another part in the machine. A society all in itself who are ignored, while each day people work hard without complaint. The most interesting people are the ones you don't know exist yet. So we interview normal people with a lot to say. From journalists, to shop keepers, mechanics, farmers, photographers, teenagers and the weirdos in-between. An honest magazine. Real people. Real life.  Opinionated, brutal and downright annoying. So look at the range of articles and people in our magazine’. GRAFTER Available now. 

Grafter Magazine - Nanny Ei / Photo Sam Wainwright https://www.instagram.com/wainwrightsam/?hl=en

Grafter Magazine The Workers Magazine Feature Page 103

Grafter Magazine

SOMEONES RUBBISH: MATH ROBERTS PRETTY SHITTY CITY FEATURE

November 2020 Photographer Math Roberts asked me to talk to him about my work and invited me to feature ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ on his blog. I was really excited and happy about this invite for a few reasons, Math is one of a handful of people I have followed since I first joined instagram, from the start of uploading Someone’s Rubbish photos. I have used instagram for 5 years and over this time Math has been brilliant to speak to about all kinds of things. When I was without a camera he even offered to loan me a Ricoh GR11 we hadn’t even met. He just said “Chloe you can't be without a camera and I would love to see you take some photos on Brighton beach”. I managed to sort a camera, but it's not forgotten. The people that do selfless kind things. I love his street photography and his passion to just to get out there and make work. He’s part of a supportive creative network that exists on social media, sharing photos, ideas and lifting each other. This interview was fun and felt like a natural conversation. Thank you Math…………

https://www.mathroberts.com/blog/2020/11/8/documenting-britain-who-is-chloe-juno

SOMEONES RUBBISH: METRO FEATURE, Christmas a time of consumption

On Christmas Day at 11pm I was so excited to spot Someone’s Rubbish featured on METRO

https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/25/artist-captures-photos-of-christmas-rubbish-on-the-street-13805273/

A brilliant Christmas gift, to see my photos reach more people. I love making the work, all the walking and exploring and I always get butterflies when I see my photos being written about and shared. Big Thank you to Alex the photo editor who found me, he said he really tries to push photography that he follows and loves and its exciting for him when features go for it.

Artist captures photos of Christmas rubbish on the street

‘A photographer has amassed a collection of pics showing litter from everyday life. Chloe Juno has taken to snapping photos of the detritus she’s found on the streets of Brighton and Hove every day since 2014. She adds the pictures to her Instagram account @chloejuno almost daily, and has said that many of the items she photographs are things she’s used herself. Chloe has described her collection as ‘an archaeology photo project, a street museum of now, looking at the cost of living’.

JANUARY COBBLERS, PULLINGERS, BRIGHTON 2012

2012, I co-led a 2-year social history project documenting an area of Brighton that has a history of extreme poverty. We collected up 32 oral histories and I spent time photographing the area for a 200 page oral history and photography book. The book can be sourced at the British Library and the Keep Brighton. The photos below are from a long-established cobbler, the place to get your shoes all fixed up in Brighton. It's now closed. I'm working over my archive, looking at new edits of past work. The first photo below didn't make it into the book!

January, Cobblers, Brighton, 2012.

For me personally, this project was so amazing to work on as it was all focused around an area I knew so well, and one set of grandparents used to live in a tower block in the middle of the area that we were working in. I felt at home and at ease walking and exploring with the camera. They used to go to Pullingers cobblers to sort their shoes out!

January, Cobblers, Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

SOMEONES RUBBISH: FOTO FEMME UNITED, Traces Of Faces by Meg Wellington-Barratt

I’m really happy to be included within Foto Femme United

Meg Wellington writes about ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ It's a great article, Meg took some time looking over thousands of my photos. In Notice Jobs Money, the paper is wet and weathered and discarded cigarettes and matches surround. The narrative of unemployment continues in the readymade composition, torn off numbers giving clues of the previous human interaction that took place. Many poignant topics run through Juno’s project that can be interpreted as markers of contemporary living. Homelessness, drug use, unemployment, marriage, elections, birthdays, right through to the current pandemic. The archive that is being built through the project is a brutal, unedited one. There is sadness upon viewing some of Juno’s photographs, a disbelief that they are extracted from a recent time.

Read More https://www.fotofemmeunited.com/article/244

Foto Femme United is an international women’s photography group and community established and based in Paris, France. Our mission is multi-layered. To start, we believe that empowering women in photography around the world is vital.

Meg Wellington-Barrett

https://twitter.com/megwellingtonb

https://www.instagram.com/bonjourmeg/?hl=en

CIGARETTE BUTTS, SOMEONE'S RUBBISH, BRIGHTON, 2020.

Someone's Rubbish over 3000 images on Instagram. Photos taken daily from 2014. Looking at everyday life in the centre of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, Britain. The objects people use and discard, a street museum of now, looking at the cost of living, the things we need to use in this life, for play, work, education, health, beauty, food, sex, love, drugs, debts, money, bills, general domestic life. Over time I have also realised, that many of the objects I am drawn to document are things I have used or relate to in some way. As the collection builds patterns form, representing a section of a city.

A big picture of life now.

Cigarette Butts , Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton and Hove 2020 @chloejuno

SOMEONES RUBBISH: Cigarette Butts and Rose Petals, Photo of the week Rolling Stone, Black Camera.

I recently found out my work had been selected as photo of the week for February’s valentine feature online Italia Rolling Stone. Very exciting!!! for ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ but I only found out as I searched my name on google. So I recommend to all photographers, every few months search your name, work might be out there being used without permission. I am happy about this feature but it would have been lovely to know. An email is on its way!

Cigarette Butts and Rose Petals, Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton and Hove 2020.

“Petals and butts, consumption, and feeling. This week's Photo of the Week captures the objects that have been part of our lives for an instant, before being thrown away. What remains of love after Valentine's Day, the balloons after the party, newspaper clippings, and used condoms.  In 2014 Chloe Juno started Someone's rubbish project, photographing and then posting on Instagram more than 2500 objects that the people of Brighton and Hove, a coastal town in the southeast of England, used and threw in the garbage. STEFANO MARRONE 

Cigarette Butts and Rose Petals, Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton and Hove 2020 @chloejuno

MY RUBBISH: EGGSHELLS, LOCKDOWN, 13th JUNE 2020.

BUBBLE GUM, Someones Rubbish,Brigton and Hove 2015 -2020

BUBBLE GUM is a type of chewing gum designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble. I used to love Hubba Bubba and Bubblicious when I was kid, the taste of a fresh square, as I would bite into it, then moving it around my mouth, biting it and then trying to work out where to place my tongue to blow the best bubble.

I’m making photo grids of some of the rubbish I have spotted and documented over the years. I use an i-phone for all the ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ photos and now use a layout app to create the grids. The immediacy of this technology works so well for my dyslexic brain. I often have fast thoughts and think of bigger pictures, so the ability to create something so immediate that comes to mind, its totally freeing for me.

Limited edition prints, available to buy soon over on my shop page.

Drool Prints: Smashed EGG Shell, England, Someones Rubbish, Brighton, 2015-2020

print sold

For the last 5 years I have been photographing the objects people discard on the streets of Brighton and Hove, England, creating a big visual picture of life now. I have started selling limited edtion prints over on DROOL . I was so excited to sell a print and it was so lovely and inspiring to recieve the feedback below, I love the fact that someone wants to see the work I do everday and that it’s now hanging in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York.

“ I very much enjoy your instagram and find your pictures compelling and thoughtful - your artwork makes me stop and think, which is an ever more precious thing in this breakneck world. (Although, having said that, everybody’s been inside the last few weeks, lol). Anyway, I look at the shattered egg every day and its great so thank you and keep up the excellent work”

SOMEONES RUBBISH: BABYBEL ChloeJuno, Brighton and Hove, England.

Babybel Skins, Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton, and Hove, May 2020.

Social distancing, walking, and spotting rubbish.

I have been taking daily photographs of rubbish for 5 years looking at life via the objects we discard. I have always thought about how the rubbish will look to people in the future looking back on us as a civilization. I have thought about a time when maybe there are fewer people on the streets and how an archeologist looks at objects and builds a picture of human life past. There is less rubbish about right now, finding things whilst we are in lockdown feels poignant. Due to the pandemic over the past weeks, we have only been allowed out to shop or exercise.

5 years of daily photographs looking at life now via the objects we use and discard.

The rubbish pile keeps growing.

#costofliving #shopping #covid_19 #someonesrubbish #someonesrubbishchloejuno

Someone’s Rubbish Copyright Chloe Juno

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CUT FLOWERS: LOCKDOWN, ENGLAND 2020 CHLOE JUNO

Snowy White Chrysanthemums. Supermarket: Morrisons 2 for £5 pounds, St James Street, Brighton 2020.

I love flowers and plants, In previous years I have spent time in Cornwall where I would photograph wildflowers on a cliff-edge in Cornwall with my iPhone, swiss army knife, and a black scarf. Over these strange weeks, I have been given different bunches of flowers which has really lifted my spirits. I sat at my desk this evening looking at the patterns which led me to set up a mini home studio.

Snowy White Chrysanthemums. Morrisons 2 for £5 pounds, St James Street, Brighton 2020.

Copyright Chloe Juno

DOCUMENTING BRITAIN: FEATURE CHRIS DORLEY BROWN

LOCKDOWN, LONDON March, April and May 2020.

I am curating Chris Dorley Brown’s recent work over on Documenting Britain’s Instagram account. Chris has taken to the streets of London whilst we go through this strange time, living through the effects of Covid-19, documenting famous locations in London; places known by many and normally extremely busy, but now devoid of people. I have featured work by Chris before and love the mood he creates within his photography, his framing and composition draws one in to explore the buildings, structures, and roads we use, making everyday locations feel monumental. I have worked in some of the areas Chris has photographed and I am often in London for meetings, it's so odd seeing these busy places so empty and must be even stranger walking around them.

www.documentingbritain.com

Chris set up his own photographic practice in 1984 concentrating on documenting East London. In a series of residencies and commissions focussing on social housing, workplaces, hospitals, and architecture, he has established a substantial archive of images that are re-purposed and re-contextualised for distribution via web, film, exhibition, and publication. https://modrex.com/about

https://modrex.com/publications

THE CORNERS Published by Hoxton Mini Press (May 2018)

THE LONGEST WAY ROUND Published by Overlapse (Nov 2015)

DRIVERS IN THE 1980s Published by Hoxton Mini Press (May 2015)

THE EAST END IN COLOUR 1960 -1980 Published by Hoxton Mini Press (Nov 2017)

Piccadilly Circus, April, 2020 Featuring Copyright Chris Dorley Brown https://modrex.com/

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London 2020 Copyright Chris Dorley Brown

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Wentworth Street, Aldgate, London March 2020 Copyright Chris Dorley Brown https://modrex.com/

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Shoreditch, Poster by Mark Titchner, May 2020 Copyright Chris Dorley Brown https://modrex.com/

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Scrutton Street, Shoreditch, May 2020 Copyright Chris Dorley Brown https://modrex.com/

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