I suppose my photography is always a catalogue of obsessions, but at times and in particular places this shows more strongly.
Most of these pictures were taken in Kensington, with just a couple in Primrose Hill.
Photographically there is a certain interest in rendering these essentially white surfaces – as some photographers have found with subjects like white eggs on a white plate.
But I suppose that there might be more Freudian interpretations of at least some of these pictures.
London developed hugely in the nineteenth century with stock brick for the workers and stucco for the middle classes, and I still feel something of an outsider in these wealthy areas, although some had become pretty down-at-heel by the 70s and 80s when I was making these pictures.
Since then, most of them have been tidied up and refurbished, and more divided into flats now often worth rather my than my own outer suburban house.
There are times I find myself rather despising what appears to be overdone icing on the architectural cake, and looking for something with a little more depth and variation.
There is something of the fairly tale about these houses and the pictures, and although I had committed myself to photographing all of London I felt a longing to get away from Kensington and back to the real world.
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