Welcome to The South – 1989-1992
My first ever camera was a Konica Pop (fixed lens 35mm point and shoot film camera). I can’t draw. I’m hopeless at it. My brother is an accomplished artist, my mother could paint and thankfully my parents bought me the Konica was I was about 12.
I took it with me to university in 1989 but I was a genuine, flat broke student and the costs of film and processing meant that it had very little use. After buying a old Russian-made Zenit, I traded up to a Fujica with a dodgy shutter, a momentary brush with a Nikon EM, a dreadful Praktica (it scratched the film when you wound it through) and finally a faithful Canon AE-1.
I took a series of pictures on the Konica Pop during 1989-91 that made it into an exhibition called “Welcome to The South”.
Homeless men around London Victoria – Konica Pop camera
Homeless men Victoria London 1989
London Street scenes – Konica Pop camera
London 1992 corner of Grape Street and Shaftsbury Avenue
London 1991 street market
Ebury Bridge London Sw1 overlooking Grosvenor Road Rail Depot.
London 1991 corner of Gower Street and University Street
London 1991 Turpentine Lane Peabody Estate Pimlico
London 1991 street market
Covent Garden fairgournd ride 1992
London 1991 Buckingham Palace Road man with Christian literature
London 1991 Women walking in Chelsea
London 1991 disused railway buildings at Battersea Power Station
London 1991 view of Battersea Power Station from Battersea Park Road
London 1991 Camden young people outside HSBC Camden High Street
London 1991 car cleaners Buckingham Palace Road
London 1991 unknown house in Camden
London 1991 boy in Camden
London 1991 underpass near Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women
London 1991 Grand National Day Camden High Street
London 1991 Balcony of Georgian townhouse off Camden High Street
London 1991 Camden 1951 cadillac CSK 532
Warehouse at Loman Street London SE1
Loman Street London SE1 looking towards Great Suffolk Street
Now demolished cafe corner of Surrey Row London SE1
Pakeman House Surrey Row London SE1
Family Southwark London SE1
A. Smith funeral parlour, 122 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough of Southwark, London SE1. Now demolished.
Doorway London SE1
Old British Rail carriage 1991
London Bridge Station
Green Gragon Court looking towards Bedale Street London SE1