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Book Synopsis“Local or visitor, London courses through your body as if its rainbow-coloured system of underground veins is somehow intrinsically linked to your own.” ~ Chris Holmes
Often waking before dawn, photographer Chris Holmes captures rare moments of solitude and calm as the city of London yawns, stretches and begins its day. His high-contrast scenes depict the miniature dramas unfolding all around us, obscured by the hectic pace of metropolitan life. Moving to London as an adult, Chris fell in love with the city in tandem with his development as a photographer and shoots his adopted home as both a romantic insider and an impartial admirer.
Hidden in Chaos pairs Chris’s cinematic images with the words of 18 poets of various backgrounds, adding more layers of texture and meaning to the complex but devoted relationship that London’s residents and visitors have with the city’s many faces. London’s gray and glow, its daily ebb and flow, are celebrated, questioned and contemplated in this visual and poetic tribute.
Includes poems by Elena Ashton, Shez Chung Blake, Troy Cabida, Laura Corns, Paul Cree, Caroline Druitt, George Duggan, Sam El-Bahja, Tom Gill, Bizhan Govindji, Imogen Hudson-Clayton, Danny Martin, Louise McStravick, Aaliyah Orridge, Astra Papachristodoulou, Abdul Patel, Ben See, and Janay Stephenson.
Table of ContentsMay I Ask Who Is Steering? (excerpt), by Imogen Hudson-Clayton
Don't Mind the Gap, by Bizhan Govindji
Commuters, by Astra Papachristodoulou
My Room is Bigger Back Home Yet..., by Aaliyah Orridge
London, My Portrait, by Troy Cabida
Established, by Abdul Patel
Peckham Springs, by Imogen Hudson-Clayton
Never Leave, by Laura Corns
Stumbling, by George Duggan
A Passer-By Conjures a World Where Everyone Has Their Own Red Dragon, by Astra Papachristodoulou
Observing Temples, by Astra Papachristodoulou
Drizzle, by Paul Cree
London Kintsugi, by Louise McStravick
Full Moon Moment, by Ben See
The Penny Drops, by Caroline Druitt
Tower Block Life/Living in Boxes, by Shez Chung Blake
They Ban-She, by Sam El-Bahja
Cranes~, by Astra Papachristodoulou
London's Disposable Camera – Film II, by Danny Martin
Metamorphoses II, by Astra Papachristodoulou
Searching, by Tom Gill
Birthday Boys & Birthday Girls, by Janay Stephenson
Postcards from England, by Louise McStravick
Walk On By, by Elena Ashton
