Lockdown London
When London was put into lockdown to try to control the Coronavirus pandemic on the 20th March, 2020, I got on my bike and started documenting the empty city. It was a surreal journey like being an actor in a strange film. Streets were filled with the ghosts of crowds. Traffic and pollution had disappeared, and, in the silence, I ‘saw’ the city’s splendour, unencumbered, for the first time.
Rush hour Bank of England
Man clearing Trafalgar Square on first day of lockdown
Trafalgar Square, minutes after start of lockdown
City of London tailors
Piccadilly Circus, 7.30pm Saturday evening
Homeless man, Oxford Circus
Deserted bar in Austin Friars, City of London
Lone cyclist, Fenchurch Street
Empty new Development, Fen Court on Fenchurch Street
Threadneedle Street, Bank
Corinthian House on an empty Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch
Lloyd's building at rush hour 26th March 2020
Hassidic prayer meeting outside a Stamford Hill home, Hackney
A jogger in front of the Shard building, London Bridge
Daily yoga exercise, Corbet Place, Hackney
Brent Cross Shopping Centre, empty car park
Homeless man sleeping rough on the Strand
Easter bunnies, St Pauls
Waterloo Station
Early morning exercising in front of St Pauls Cathedral, on the Millenium Bridge
Dragon statue marks the boundary of the City of London on Fleet Street
Thurloe Square, Kensington
Man filming himself exercising in Aldgate Square
Petticoat Lane Market, Aldgate
The Invisible Man poster in front of a closed cinema in Leicester Square
Homeless sheltering outside Heals store, West End
The last banana in supermarket after panic buying
A deserted Westfield Stratford City
Man in Hazmat suit, Trafalgar Square
Closed stores, Oxford Circus
Waiting for a bus, outside Victoria Station
Bus Driver, West End
Cornhill in the City of London at 7.30am
Abby Road Studios
Festival Hall, Southbank
Clapton Ponds, Hackney
Highgate Village