black and white photography by rob gardiner.

Piccadilly Circus is a hub where several famous streets meet including Piccadilly itself, Regent Street, and Shaftesbury Avenue.

These photographs were taken with a pinhole camera, which as I’ve
described many times has no lens, viewfinder, meter, shutter, or
anything except a piece of film in a box with a pinprick sized hole to
let in some light.

Below is the view up Regent Street.

The skyway of Air Street.

And finally the Number 38 Routemaster chugging past London’s famous Ritz Club Hotel. (only a few metres from where i shot this Polaroid.)

A pinhole photo of the Norman Foster designed foyer of the British Museum.

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.