(Listed buildings on the tube network)
Around 25% of Underground Stations are English Heritage listed buildings, Grade 2 and above.
This project provided a chance to return to black and white analogue photography, explore London, and visit interesting, often overlooked, architecture.
Recording times and places, that have been used as part of our daily journeys for many years, and unusually in this present day, stand out quietly, providing portals to travel, memories, and for those with time to stop and stare, designs and buildings far from ordinary.
The use of a classic medium format camera, and going square, was new and at the same time gently familiar, from working with Polaroid images.
Once the first images were processed, the formatting almost dictated itself, a combination of images, a single selected view, bleed through on the printing, a four image polaroid lift, all A3 size.
Meetings with friends, chats about different layouts, all helped in creating the final presentation.
Original images were taken on a Hasselblad 500cm Anniversary Edition, with 90 mm lens, using a mix of new and out of date film.
For each station:
Visit only once.
Take six photos:
Three on XP2, three on expired film, (FP4 or TriX, as available).
Select four from the six images, create a linear picture, select a single frame as a stand alone image.
Create a Polaroid Lift from the linear images.
Use An Alphabetical List of the Stations or use the links below to search by Tube Lines.
