I like taking photos on escalators. I seem to be drawn to the bold lines and colours, as well as the shiny surfaces and glowing neon lights. Here are five of my favourites, presented without comment.
I took these pictures in various locations, in London and Athens. Photographs of urban spaces always strike me as eerie, but it’s an eeriness I adore.
Posted by thefty on 10/05/2012
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I like the way urban jungles make room for nature.
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Posted by thefty on 07/02/2011
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The streets of East London are an ever-changing riot of colour. I used to live in that end of town, and I often wish I still did. Either way, I’m always heading back there with my camera, and here are my TOP 5 photos of East London walls.
What can I say? You can take the girl out of Whitechapel, but you can’t take Whitechapel out of the girl.
Posted by thefty on 07/10/2010
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1. Blocks of paint.
2. Bricks, juxtaposed.
3. Tarnished layers of paper and metallic paint.
4. A blunt facade.
5. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, indeed.
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Posted by thefty on 15/04/2010
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Can you find me a straight line in nature? I’d love to see it. One of my university lecturers once commented that our urban environment is full of rectangles, but that there is no such thing in the man-free world. Interesting, no?
1. The Golgen Hall Mall, Athens, is a shiny shiny criscross of escalators.
2. A snapshot of a stairwell, in all its jagged-lined glory.
3. Some spectacular geometric wallpaper.
4. Sharp lines cutting across the soft blue sky.
5. In the city, even the shadows are a zigzag.
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Posted by thefty on 16/03/2010
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The urban landscape can be simultaneously impressive and depressive. Don’t you think?
1. Metal, metal, pipes and fumes.
2. Shining, gleaming, movement.
3. Smog, smut and cement.
3. Well-lit spaces, tiny people.
5. Competition with the sky.
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Posted by thefty on 18/02/2010
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These five photos were all taken on a 15 minute walk in London. Look down! there’s a lot of variety at your feet.
1. Water, gas and co.
2. This looks like a slab of fridge cake. (I’m hungry, presumably.)
3. Repeating patterns and flattened gum.
4. Some spectacular tesselation going on over here.
5. Cracks, stripes and cigarette butts.
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Posted by thefty on 09/02/2010
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I think this is what they mean by ‘beauty is everywhere’.
1. In the tunnel to the museums, South Kensington underground, London.
2. Grimy but pristine posters, Cheshire Street, London.
3. In a driveway off Little Clarendon Street, Oxford.
4. Abandoned shopfront near Victoria Square, Athens.
5. Somewhere on Odos Athinas, Athens.
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Posted by thefty on 27/01/2010
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In no particular order:
1. The inner city palette.
2. Inner city camouflage.
3. Camouflage fail.
4. Grey: Not just for the city.
5. Grey: I love it.
Posted by thefty on 27/10/2009
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In no particular order:
1. Riverside, Reading.
2. On the ground, Brick lane.
3. This alley really smelt of pee.
4. This alley did not smell of pee, thankfully.
5. These scrawlings were so fresh that I nearly stained my dress with them.
Posted by thefty on 13/10/2009
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In no particular order:
1. A letterbox.
2. Chopped-up tiles.
3. I have no idea what this is.
4. Window shadows.
5. Security grill.
Posted by thefty on 08/09/2009
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