A Walk along the Thames
These are taken with a pinhole camera, which as I have described
before, has no lens, shutter, viewfinder, or meter, and is essentially
little more than a box with a pinprick sized hole in it. To make a
photo, you place a shoebox looking contraption on the ground, and count
to some number. A lunchtime stroll along London’s Thames river. Many of
the world’s great cities are bisected by rivers, seas, or the ocean.
Paris, Sydney, and San Francisco celebrate their water. But London
turns its back on it. Dozens of people watch from bridges and walkways-
is that really someone on the ‘beach’? What are they doing down there,
who would ever deliberately go there? Police with machine guns keep
watch from a walkway. What is that person doing? A city of 5 million,
and no one ventures near the river that was the very reason for the
city being founded on this location.
Blackfriars Bridge to Westminster Bridge, via the London Eye, 2004.
