Philipp Ebeling walked the 155-mile border around the UK capital. The photographer’s new book is a love letter to the city’s edges and ‘in-between places’. [...]
The next morning, Ebeling went on to Dagenham. He photographed children playing tennis on a court half-flooded by the rain of the previous day; then he lingered at Dagenham’s Sunday market, “taking pictures of cut glass figurines, make-up and cosmetics, umbrellas, push-up bras, fake fur coats, Adidas trainers, toilet paper, cleaning products, mobile phone cases, and a man with a machete opening coconuts.” [...]
The series is a love letter to the city, but one that is conflicted, unvarnished and not blind to the tensions, complexities and unease of the London beyond the moneyed centre.
Blending street portraits, architectural studies and great panoramic cityscapes, the series exhibits Ebeling’s eye for the small, easily overlooked details that make London such a varied, unpredictable home: a black Congregation at Holy Trinity Church in Tottenham Green; an old-school Turkish barber in Green Lanes, Harringay; a pie and mash shop in Waltham Forest; a Korean Air jetliner coursing over the trees of Hounslow; a temporary fairground in North Cheam, Sutton; the cormorants basking on the islands of Walthamstow Reservoirs.
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