‘Looking East’. Mixed media collage

The mixed media collage (above) is based on the urban landscape of the City of London viewed from Whitechapel. The neat graphic sky line (2019) contrasts with the well worn coat of the smoking woman who appeared on the front cover of my book ‘Old Ladies of Whitechapel’ – published by Cafe Royal books. I photographed her in 1982 walking down Cheshire Street on a Sunday morning.

Two different eras are frozen in time. The woman can be viewed as a dogged survivor of a continuously shifting urban landscape that cares little for the inhabitants of the East End and more for the financial prowess of the City.

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