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Health consultant and writer Katy Cooper has written this latest guest blog about her year-long project photographing her neighbourhood. Six months ago today, I was reading on Next City’s website about Chuck Wolf’s book, ‘Seeing the Better City’, which exhorts us to use our cameras to keep an urban diary as a de facto planning

September 24, 2017

There’s a scene in Michael Winterbottom’s 1999 film Wonderland when Gina McKee’s character Nadia takes the Night Bus home across the Thames from central London.  The image of a somewhat pensive young woman alone on the upper deck is exquisitely evocative of a certain time of night, time of life – and time of night

August 28, 2017

Charity consultant and multi-volunteer Richard Sved has written the latest in my Sense of Place blog series. I’ve always thought of myself as a London boy. I grew up in north London, my football team is based in north London (the red and white one) and most of my friends and family lived there. But

July 23, 2017