Our third The Big Issue vendor submits London Street Photography images
March 8, 2011 Blogs, Community, Exhibitions, Photography, Specialist projects, VolunteersToday we bring you images taken by The Big Issue vendor Viv, who has over the last two weeks, as part of a project in conjunction with The Big Issue, been capturing life on London’s streets. A selection of work on this ongoing project will eventually be displayed in our London Street Photography exhibition.
This picture was taken at Embankment and Viv has added the following extract from her diary regarding help provided to the homeless in this area of London: “…one of the biggest soup runs in London [is located nearby] and they come out once a week and it’s run by the same family for the last 20 years or more. The street people call it The Stew. 50 – 200 people come to get fed”.
This image is from East Street Market where,Viv comments in her diary: “Charlie Chaplin used to go there as he lived nearby”.
Viv’s travels took her to many different parts of London as captured in the photographs below:
Viv wanted to capture ” a variety of street life” and ”really enjoyed the project and would have liked to have done it for longer!”
You can catch up on previous blog updates here from both Hazel and Mahesh.