Weekends

Weekends aims to portray the identities and subsequently influenced activities or moments of the weekend in south London. Setting out as a narrative showing identities within a multi cultural environment. After the onslaught of the week how your appearance is perceived in the weekend through group identity or singular individual behavior. Identities can be heightened at the weekend due to the possibilities, expectations or lack of them as the week climaxes into the weekend.


The project consists of a journey through the weekend from Friday evening leaving work, the highs and lows of Saturday night to the impending gloom of Sunday evening sitting on a bus contemplating the week to come. The project takes in the fairs and festivals, kids in gangs living out there present identities heightened by the weekends presence. The hustle and bustle of Saturday afternoon shopping, traveling, reunions, farewells, pubs and raves, or waiting for a bus on your night out.


Alternating between black and white, taken between 1993-1996 and colour, taken between 1999-2003. A change in direction as black and white appeared not enough to show and accentuate the full sphere of London as it moved in to the new millennium. The work encompassed the south London area from the inner city to the suburbs.


Through the project I hoped to show the diversity and structure of a cross section of inhabitants in an area of a large multicultural city within Europe