The Spitalfields Life blog has just published my Brief history of London’s mulberries. I’ll be writing something on Chelsea’s mulberries for the Morus Londinium blog soon.
A brief history of London’s mulberries
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London mulberry project
In May this year the Conservation Foundation launched a new project called Morus Londinium that I helped to put together. From now until the end of next year I will be writing regular blogs for their website. The idea is to document and preserve London’s mulberry tree heritage and to research the stories behind some of the older ones, which are sometimes survivors of a past that has disappeared under urban development.
My latest post is on the mulberries of Cadogan Place Gardens, on the edge of Chelsea.
London’s mulberry heritage
The Morus Londinium project on London’s mulberry tree heritage and its heritage mulberries is now up and running. We are carrying out the most comprehensive survey of London’s mulberry trees, with an interactive online map for anyone to add trees they know of, or learn about trees all over London. I am editor and researcher for the project.
Streetopolis moving to Barcelona next
Streetopolis show
Association of Urban Photographers/ Streetopolis show is on in New York, moves to Barcelona and then to London in October.
Details Here:
I have 4 images in the show – on Urban Forest I: Paris
Remembering Hurricane Katrina by Peter Coles
Swifts are back
I saw three swifts screeching overhead in our street this morning. Just about the same day as for the past few years. Amazing really.
Going, going gone
The gradual death of a beech tree in West Heath woods, near to where I live, taken over a span of about 20 years. The trunks were each felled by storms and high winds.
Movement by The Association of Urban Photographers
Only a few days left…
The modern city is a space of movement, flux and flow. Everything changes; sometimes instantly before our eyes, and sometimes almost imperceptibly over time. This year Urban Photographers present Movement, their inaugural exhibition. Association members were invited to respond to the exhibition theme, and there was an expectation that the resulting images would be varied, conceptually diverse, and have a quality of montage rather than a tight, linear flow.
The Association of Urban Photographers is an international group of 30 photographers and artists, all with a shared interest in urban spaces and places. Their work – whether it is about making, publishing or exhibiting photography – asks fundamental questions about the nature of contemporary urban life. Their central concern is to open up discussions about how image-makers and urban researchers can rethink ways of engaging with and encountering the city.
The exhibition is at The Silver Print Gallery, 120…
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