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| Canary Wharf - A Spot of Fishing |
What if the Thames burst it's banks? Did I say 'what'? I meant 'when'. Displacing the Dome and submerging Soho, Squint/Opera have created a series of beautiful images of a Flooded London to enlighten us as to the everyday, underwater. It wouldn't be the first time either - back in 1814 a brewery spilled its 1.2 million litre load into Tottenham Court Road, killing eight people. True story. Sadly, it's not likely to be beer that gets us next time.
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| St Mary Woolnath - Rich Pickings |
What with global warming frying the poles at an alarming rate, it's only a matter of time before the Thames Barrier is overwhelmed. There's even a book (and subsequent disaster flick) about it. It might seem like we're all doom'n'gloom on the future over at Don't Panic, but these images show the optimistic regeneration of a city going about its business, already well accustomed to the heightened tideline.
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| St Pauls - A Late Afternoon Plunge |
Being part of the London Festival of Architecture, the images make an interesting statement about the authority carried by buildings. The floods bring with them a kind of egalitarianism that removes the power structures from Canary Wharf and St Pauls, turning them from temples of commerce and worship to practical places for fishing and swimming.
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| Gallery - Ressurection Experiments |
Through techniques of photography, 3D modelling and digital manipulation, Squint has achieved a modern imitation of techniques that hark back to super-idealistic Victorian landscape painters. In the above image, a gallery space becomes a workshop as we see scavengers rigging dynamos to power lightbulbs.
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| Honour Oak - Suburban Bucolia |
And Kevin Kostner's nowhere to be seen.

























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