First of all thank you for viewing my query.
okay i have AS Photography project which our theme is urban decay and we have to take shots of it techinically and i dont know where to go in london to capture the essence of urban decay.
I am using a KM pentax asahi camera so its a black and white camera and i really want to graab! the urban decay
Definition of urban decay [ to help get some inspiration/ thoughts of london]
” Urban decay is the sociological process whereby a city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude, with depopulation or changing population, economic restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape. Urban decay and gentrification are opposite processes, mirror images of each other. ”
where can i go and capture that ^
any ideas and suggestion would be very helpful!
thank you for your time!!
Some very good suggestions here.
You could start your research on the following website that catalogues London’s decaying buildings, parks, hospitals and many other things.
http://www.derelictlondon.com/
Isle of Dogs (East London), Hackney, Peckham, Stoke Newington,
Camberwell. Of course the decay is evident almost anywhere outside the well kept tourist areas in central London, in terms of graffiti, litter,
suburban gardens left to grow into a wildnerness and the sights of extreme drunkeness, visible in thousands of pubs every Friday and Saturday night
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Hackney. Scary.
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St Alphage Highwalk, alongside London Wall, near Moorgate. It’s a raised area on the north side of the thundering dual-carriageway which London Wall has become. It was built as part of the Barbican development and many years ago it didn’t look too bad – there were shops, a couple of pubs, a few small gardens, etc – but in recent years it’s fallen into decay.
All the shops and pubs are empty, and the whole place is very bleak, grey and windswept. At this time of year, probably all you’ll see will be a few office workers or Barbican residents using it as a cut-through. I think the risk of being a victim of crime in this area of ‘urban decay’ is pretty low.
The whole area will probably get redeveloped in the next few years. I think some big corporation want to build their HQ on the site, so it might be worth taking a few photos before the place is gone!
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try Dagenham
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Canary Wharf.
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Morpeus has a good one, the skywalk thing between Barbican and Moorgate is great. I was part of a photo shoot there and it turned out very well. Mind you, the photographer was on top of a nearby office block so that helped.. It’s not really decayed though. It has new world futurism and desolation but not a whole lot of decay.
The crossways estate East of Bow near the N Circular fits the bill though. Three or four high rises on small hills with concrete walkways running in between them high in the air and sealed up store rooms and garages behind just littered with debris and burnt out stuff and twelve year olds sniffing glue and wanting to mug you of your camera.
I’m unimpressed by the suggestion of Hackney though.. It’s no way near what it used to be and you won’t find any urban decay here, not any more. Besides, it has some of the most beautiful Georgian houses and really well tended gardens in London. A huge section of it, from London Fields to Kingsland Road and beyond is all a conservation area..
PS I secomd the suggestion of Peckham..
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you can’t see the bridges but you get the idea…
http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/images/pictures/01/80/crossways-estate-17574.jpg
Some very good suggestions here.
You could start your research on the following website that catalogues London’s decaying buildings, parks, hospitals and many other things.
http://www.derelictlondon.com/
References :