The ‘Out of Site’ series of images explores how gauzes and scaffolding are often in place for years before anything happens to the building. This can in effect discredit the building or make the public forget what the building was or whether it had any merit. When a building is covered in these materials they are then either demolished or restored/converted and in the case of those that are knocked down the image of the gauze and scaffolding is the last that will be seen of the building.
Many of us will be familiar with books with titles like ‘Britain then and now/past and present’. In ‘The Accelerated then and now’ series of photographs I have tried to explore the accelerated speed of development in London over the past 12 years. These imposed changes can be both
exciting and unnerving to its citizens. One century’s worth of demolition and redevelopment in another town sometimes happens in 5 years in parts of London. Architectural change is one of London’s great strengths and defining qualities but it can sometimes be carried out and rushed through with the lead hand of a planning department which is after elusive revenue from large building schemes and having that near compulsory ‘Iconic’ building in their borough.