Locations
Working practices
I love watching people in busy cities, it is fascinating to observe the movements and flow of the human traffic as it makes its way through
the urban environment.
Since severe restrictions were put on our lives in the spring of 2020 much has changed about our working relationship with our towns and cities. A work from home directive has had a dramatic effect on the footfall in places such as the City of London, I fear this may be a permanent change and one I am saddened to see.
The vibrancy and energy that working people bring to our cities is the reason they are so thriving and prosperous. If you take them away, so too goes their reason for being.
One Monday morning, as I took a break for a cup of coffee during a photowalk, I got into conversation with an office worker who told me that attendance at the office, for many people, was now between Tuesdays and Thursdays and on those days the city still felt like it had a buzz. However, Mondays and Fridays could be eerily quiet as more and more people elected to work from home.
If this is the future for the working week, then our magnificent metropolises will become very different places and the theme behind my series Man on Earth, where I imagined a city bereft of people with the only sound being that of silence, will have come to pass.
