Photoshoot at Alton East Estate, Roehampton

I went to the fairly well known Alton estate in Roehampton to photograph the buildings. I was not as happy with these photos as I felt they were quite similar to ones I had taken before at the Cambridge estate. I do however like that I was able to capture a few people in my photos that lived at the estate. I really like the one of the woman against the building, the building is in focus and the woman is blurred, I think this works well. I want to start taking pictures of the people at these estates and find out their stories as I am fascinated by the concept of 'the other'. 

Photoshoot at Alton East Estate, Roehampton

Various housing estates around London

Housing Estates

Photoshoot at Cambridge Estate, Kingston

I like the negative space in the image above, capturing just the tops of these buildings. 

I really like the image above as it is almost symmetrical apart from small differences like the door colours and the bike outside. I feel this really shows what I want people to see. Although these buildings may look dull and the same, they still have character and the personalities of the people behind the door are plain are to see.

I think these images have worked really well. I wanted to capture the Brutalist architecture as well as trying to capture certain personalities that show through these very regimented buildings. When taking the photographs I tried to create shapes and symmetry. When taking pictures of the tops of the buildings I wanted to give a different perspective to these buildings, I want people to look not only at these buildings in a different light, but also the people that live there. 

Photoshoot at Cambridge Estate, Kingston

I realised that I wanted to take pictures of these places to change people's opinions on places that have had a stigma attached to them for many years. I not only wanted to photograph the places in which these people lived but I then started to want to take pictures of the people themselves and even speak to them and hear their stories. I feel that recently programmes like 'Benefit Britain' have made the social divide between working and middle classes even bigger, showing these people in an often bad light. I wanted to provide people with their side of the story. I have photographed many different estates all over London, trying to capture little pieces of individuality in these otherwise regimented buildings. I want to connect people to places and explore the stories that these streets have witnessed.

Sophie Calle

Photoshoot in Soho, London

I like these images of the old and beaten up buildings against the signs for the sex shops. It shows the beautiful old buildings, that were around before the sex industry, and the relatively new and tacky sex culture.

I really like the images of the phoneboxes as a series of images. I wanted photograph the tart cards in these phoneboxes dotted around soho. I wanted to show that, although it has declined greatly in the last 20 or so years, the sex industry is still very much around, even if it is more underground. If you look around phoneboxes in other parts of London you will hardly ever find these cards. I like the composition of them you can still see parts of the surrounding area in the background, behind the phonebox. They are also quite linear and I like the way the picture has been cut up into parts vertically, it feels symmetrical. 

Photoshoot in Soho, London