Hackney Wick
Formally buzzing with a thriving residential community reliant on the area's industrial heritage. Hackney Wick is now home to a growing east London creative community which have slowly moved here due to the city's soaring rents. The area straddles the Hackney Marshes to the north, the Hertford Union canal pulses through it's center and Hackney Tower Hamlets interrupt it's skyline views across the city.
There is usually an emptiness to be felt in the area; you're not quite sure if people live or work in the vast array of flat roofed industrial spaces; colourful snippets of street art on precarious hard-to-get-at walls give some indication of creativity. However, today the place turned itself inside out to host the 'Hackney Wicked' Festival in celebration of it's artistic spirit and an opportunity to show case much of it's diverse talent to the outside world.
Photography by Alva Mac Gowan
Hi! We met today at COS; I looked through your blog and it is full of wonderful insights into London; particularly exciting for someone like myself who is only visiting! I really loved the images of the Hacidic Jewish community in North London. Based on the way I think you like to shoot, I thought you might be interested in this as well: http://www.citytosea.org/. If I lived here, I would love to go; seems great! Thank you for sharing; gives me some fresh ideas on things to see and places to go : )
ReplyDeleteThank you 'anonymous' for your welcomed feedback and suggestions. That project does look like an inspiring opportunity. Please follow the facebook page and send me details of your website. Best of look with your work and enjoy the remainder of your time here!
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