#wronglondon — Public Fediverse posts

#WrongLondon entices you in with temptations of #mystery and #discovery. But all it delivers is #oblivion.

#streetphotography #TellingStories #London #NightPhotography #darkness #psychogeography

#WrongLondon doesn't do charming 'appearing and disappearing' #magicial shops. It does malingering #abandoned warehouses, which elbow their way in between other buildings.

Never knocked down, just… gone, before that happens.

#TellingStories #psychogeography #NightPhotography #London #photography

This is #WrongLondon. No matter what route you try, you're going nowhere.

#psychogeography #LiminalSpaces #London #photography #MondayMood #trains #loneliness #PhotoMonday #error

#WrongLondon is well built and, barring an occasional leaking of existential #dread, well maintained. But where are its architects, its construction workers?

Who made it?

#psychogeography #architecture #London #photography #Rainham #bridges #concrete

#WrongLondon is filled with alleyways and dead-ends, but it is more filled with #tunnels.

These lightless arteries pump #void from its dark heart to sustain this this #empty city. Sometimes it leaks.

#psychogeography #London #photography #Moorgate

@justinfarrimond
Me too - and #WrongLondon isn't this world, even though it's a reflection and reaction to it.

Through a looking glass, darkly. The sense of loneliness that's unique to busy places in big cities when they're empty.

#WrongLondon is realising the avenues of your life are crumbling tunnels, and the light at the end is an empty window display in a half shuttered high street.

Happy Christmas

#psychogeography #photography #London #StreetPhotography

This is where the bad #plants go.
#WrongLondon permits only so much resistance. Where life thrashes against it too strongly, the #city enfolds and contains it.

#psychogeography #NaturePhotography #undergrowth #brambles #CapitalRing

A few lights may be on, cars outside… but don't be fooled. No one's at home. #WrongLondon is a city full of dead ends.

HTs #psychogeography #emptiness #London #photography

In some places the natural world pushes back against #WrongLondon, trying to restrict the #darkness. But veins of ice run through this empty #city, stronger than leaf and sap.

HTs #StreetPhotography #psychogeography #TellingStories #London #NightPhotography #photography

Wrong London does not lie in the darkness where the lines disappear. #WrongLondon lies in the #LiminalSpaces, where you stand in the light and see no other being in all the distance between you and that #darkness.

HTs #psychogeography #streetphotography #nightPhotography #Paddington #photography #London #loneliness

Sometimes #WrongLondon offers a more convincing suggestion of escape - the way will be difficult, long and dangerous, but the shining towers and HAPPY PEOPLE are at the other side.

It's still a lie. The towers are empty, the lights a cruel facade, your #journey leads to nothing but #darkness. Once it has you, Wrong London will never let you go.

#nightPhotography #psychogeography #London #photography #TellingStories

We cannot get out.
We cannot get out.
They have taken the bridge and the Community Hall.
#WrongLondon is… inescapable.

HTs #architecture #brutalism #London #photography #TellingStories #dusk

It's looking up in #WrongLondon.
(This doesn't mean things are going well — Wrong London gazes back down.)

HTs #StreetPhotography #perspective #CityOfLondon #urbanphotography #London #photography #NightPhotography

Sometimes you think you see a way out, a way back to the 'real' #London. But as the distance stretches, you realise it's just #shadows in the #darkness.
Be patient. There must be others here somewhere?

HTs #WrongLondon #LondonUnderground #lost #photography #silhouette

#WrongLondon has plenty of space for the dead. But you've yet to catch clear sight of anyone else living here 😲

HTs #graveyard #NightPhotography #London #StreetPhotography #photography

"The light at the end of the tunnel" is such an outmoded concept, and #WrongLondon will have no truck with it.

HTs #streetphotography #psychogeography #darkness #London #TheLightAtTheEndOfTheTunnel #photography

The #road goes ever on and on,
Through the #London which is Wrong
Seriously will its breadth e'er end
So from this road-bridge, I might descend?

HTs #WrongLondon #StreetPhotography #Tolkein #poetry #photography #UrbanPhotography

#WrongLondon has places to meet, places to eat. Yet you never see anyone else there.
Why is that?

HTs #StreetPhotography #lonely #psychogeography #London #photography #NightPhotography

#WrongLondon entices you in with #temptations of #mystery and #discovery. But all it delivers is #oblivion.

HTs #StreetPhotography #hookland #psychogeography #SilentSunday

#WrongLondon has many paths, innumerable #alleyways, plenty of routes that seem like they should take you away.
But no #escape
HTs #streetphotography #hookland #psychogeography #London #photography

#WrongLondon tells you that you can #escape. That it's a quick dash through the #darkness to reach #light and warmth.

It lies.

HTs #streetphotography #hookland #psychogeography #London #photography

My first inkling of the other place, when I asked myself – did I just step off the wrong side, and get the #tube into the #WrongLondon? 😳
#photography #TellingStories #LondonUnderground #streetphotography

#WrongLondon also has a Leake Street, filled with #StreetArt. But there, the paint watches *you* dry.

Hard to be 100% sure, given spotting the #eyes was a later moment of serendipity, but I think they're by Olivier Roubieu.

#reflections #hookland #psychogeography #London #photography #art