PhotoStories | London City – Old versus New

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I don’t know about you, but to me it feels like I haven’t posted a London photostory here since forever!

I was recently running some errands in the City of London area, and couldn’t help but notice the juxtaposition of the old and the new. Whether beautiful or jarring, I think that nowhere else in London is this juxtaposition so stark, so compelling, and so worthy of a second look.

I would have clicked more except for the blazing, searing sun beating down my back that forced me to retreat into the nearest air-conditioned cafe after the first few shots. Now this has never happened to me in London before – India, yes; Spain, yes; London, never.

Who would’ve thought.

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  1. SusanM.

    That first picture is just gorgeous. I have been there often and your picture just brings the scene alive.

    May 29th, 2012 // Reply
  2. Shilpa

    Thank you, Susan. You made my day with that comment!

    May 29th, 2012 // Reply

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The French term 'Flâneur' refers to the 'wanderer', the 'stroller' in the City – the 'observer', in one sense and the 'voyeur', in another – one who 'walks the City in order to experience it' (Charles Baudelaire). The Flaneurbanite documents the stories by this modern day act of flânerie – curious, covert, yet candid, she walks the City and tells the stories – the many legends, big and small, told and untold, hidden under its many layers.

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