A photographer who spent a year capturing the scenery of the London underground shares his favourite spots around Southwark.
The tube isn’t somewhere people often stop and take in the scenery, but Amadeus Long, author and photographer of ‘A Year in London’, said he spent a year doing exactly that.
“In 2016 I spent a year photographing the areas immediately surrounding every station of London’s underground system,” Amadeus, who grew up in northwest London, explained.
“I started on January 1st and 430 tube stops later I finished on the 24th December of the same year.”
“Some of my favourite spots were in Southwark. I was taking photos all through the seasons and saw lots of changes. At Waterloo, for example, because there are so many tube lines, I had to go back quite a few times. The first time I went, I could see the London Eye from around the tube line – but later on in the year when I returned, flats had been built and the Eye was no longer visible. The view had changed.”
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Amadeus added that he is about to release another book called ‘Mouth to Source’. “I walked the entire river Thames from Southend-on-sea to Kemble in The Cotswolds and took photos of the journey. The photo trail also took me to similar parts of Southwark and London, so that’s one to look out for.”
