Want to see what London looked like back in the year 1927? Check out this beautiful colour footage shot in various London locations by Claude Friese-Greene, an early British pioneer of film. Frisse-Greene created a series of travelogues nearly 90 years ago using a colour process developed by his father William Friese-Greene. The film has [...]
Photographer Daniella Zalcman recently produced a series entitled New York + London – where she combined shots from both the cities to create these beautiful collages of the two great metropolises. Zalcman’s personal love letter to New York and London can be purchased in a limited edition book, which can be found on Kickstarter. Click [...]
If you’re coming into London today (via Kings Cross) be sure to check a new piece of sculpture that’s just popped up in the departures hall. The art work, created by Lucy Orta and her husband Jorge, is called ‘Cloud i Meteoros’. Here’s more from the pair themselves: “Meteoros is a word derived from ancient [...]
If you’ve been down to London’s Southbank recently, you might have seen an new structure going up. Plugging a gap while the Cottesloe Theatre is redeveloped, this big red slap in the face is called The Shed due to its wooden slat structure. Although only due to stay until February 2014, it’s a big brute, [...]
These atmospheric images of London streets in the 1930s, before the Blitz, before the clean air act, before sodium lighting. It was a city of gloomy back streets lit by dim lamps, with forbidding alleys and the occasional welcoming light. The photographs are from a book called London Night, by John Morrison and Harold Burdekin, [...]
What if: the Milky Way were visible in NYC? It would look something like this. Taken from Darkened Skies by Thierry Cohen; he photographed various cities (NYC, Paris and Tokyo) and matched them up with starry skies from more remote places like Montana, Nevada, and the Sahara. New Yorkers can see Cohen’s work at the [...]
As an urban historian & photographer, Steve Duncan tries to peel back the layers of a city to see what’s underneath. From the tops of bridges to the depths of sewer tunnels, these explorations of the urban environment help me puzzle together the interconnected, multi-dimensional history and complexity of the great metropolises of the world. [...]
A new exhibition at the British Library traces the history of crime fiction through an enlightening illustrated alphabet. From the foxed pages of the earliest forays into crime in the late 19th century to the rubbed spines and cracked joints of well-fingered contemporary paperbacks, there are some choice books on display. Illustrated covers of crime [...]
London’s eagerly anticipated landmark, The Shard is set to open its doors to the public on the 1st February. The View from The Shard as it’s so fittingly called is about to become prime location for both Londoners and visitors from all over the world. The only place in the capital where you can actually [...]
Graphic designer Tom Wood has created a series of ten designs that celebrate London Underground’s long closed and mostly forgotten stations. 2013 marks London Underground’s 150th anniversary and the world’s oldest underground transport system has seen some huge societal changes in its time. Ever-evolving demand has led to alterations, resulting in a number of disused [...]
