Everyday Peckham Photobook
Everyday Peckham is a photobook expressing the everyday lives of people along Peckham Rye Lane with a design similar to that of contemporary, minimalist lifestyle magazines. Considering ordinary and diverse ways of urban life, Everyday Peckham offers a more raw, urban realistic representation of the city. In doing so, we hope to offer a fresh interpretation of the city, one that is more nuanced, varied and inclusive of everyday voices.
In a period of rapid urban change and transformation, we aim to archive the present and value the everyday, portraying a Peckham that is visibly heterogeneous, individual, varied and diverse. Combining interviews with street photography and sound recordings (available on our website), Everyday Peckham works to excavate the nuances of the area’s lesser-heard people and places. Through this, Everyday Peckham offers the lens for a more nuanced reading of the city.
While we recognise that a truly unbiased rendering of the city is impossible, we have worked with an awareness of this fact and have attempted to let the voices of our interviewees speak for themselves, with no more than structural edits made to the transcribed conversations. By limiting our presence in the photobook we hope to allow these deeply personal narratives to naturally unfold.
Welcome to Everyday Peckham.
In a period of rapid urban change and transformation, we aim to archive the present and value the everyday, portraying a Peckham that is visibly heterogeneous, individual, varied and diverse. Combining interviews with street photography and sound recordings (available on our website), Everyday Peckham works to excavate the nuances of the area’s lesser-heard people and places. Through this, Everyday Peckham offers the lens for a more nuanced reading of the city.
While we recognise that a truly unbiased rendering of the city is impossible, we have worked with an awareness of this fact and have attempted to let the voices of our interviewees speak for themselves, with no more than structural edits made to the transcribed conversations. By limiting our presence in the photobook we hope to allow these deeply personal narratives to naturally unfold.
Welcome to Everyday Peckham.