Three Hours From: HACKNEY

The third journey took me around areas of east London, some familiar and some unfamiliar to me. I live in Bethnal Green but don't usually venture much further north from my home in Roman Road. This trip took me up from Mare Street in Hackney up to Dalston, then sent me straight back down to finish in Brick Lane, which is familiar territory to me.

So far this project has seen each outing reveal a theme or underlying trend to the specific journey. This trip around east London didn't immediately throw up any common points but I did notice eventually that a large number of details I was registering were concerned with obvious physical marks that people had made on the streets, ranging from the deliberate (stickers, posters, graffiti, political slogans) to the marks made by people simply living in the particular locations. With such a high immigrant population the area bears the characteristics and marks of the people who live there. Therefore the shops, language, signage and people themselves help paint a picture of the community and those that make it.