This is my final post from my recent visit to the City of London, this time featuring my pinhole photos from the Barbican. Having enjoyed a splash of colour at St. Dunstan’s in the East I changed to monochrome, picking some Kodak TMAX100 to capture the Barbican’s brutalist lines.
My walk to the Barbican took in Broadgate Plaza, where the building’s huge metal supports gave me the opportunity to capture some strong shapes.
The Barbican, in contrast, is mostly build of concrete and the architecture seemed as grey as the leaden skies by the time I got there.
I found many photo opportunities, including some socially distanced seating for one (installed many decades before Covid-19 existed!) and a suitably quiet location for me to make one of my ghostly self portraits.
As I reached Liverpool Street Station for my journey home I still had one frame of film remaining. It seemed a shame not to use it, so I discreetly set up my tripod on the balcony, hoping security wouldn’t spot me, and made a four minute exposure of the goings on below me. Miraculously no one asked me to move on so my photo made it, complete with lots of ghostly commuters!
27 November 2021