London Old and New

My Single Project is based on the changes that have occurred in London during the period 1980 to the present day. I will be focusing on a certain part of the city rather than then trying to deal with the whole of London. (As it’s very big) My primary research will be done using resources at my local Library, through reference books. The local library has images of neighbourhood areas and I will be taking images of those images and then going back to the same location to take pictures now. I will be comparing the old images with the new ones.

My influence for this project is an exhibition running at South Bank Centre of Hayward ‘Mark Wallinger Curates: The Russian Linesman’. The Artist did a project which was a video that showed past and present at the same time. Half the screen showed past and the other half present. The old footage was taken from various old films, whereas the new clips were taken now at the same places, with same angle and pretty much the same time of the day. The vast changes of construction and architecture are obvious and there has been a transformation.