How to walk around London
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- How much more real these clichés can become just by walking with them rather than seeing them in a photo essay. You will hear them, smell them, see the fraying of their shoe laces, and the humour in their eyes. How difficult it is to feel different from someone standing in the same patch of sunlight as you, watching the same digger swinging in front of the back of a row of Georgian houses, bay windows sweeping in the sun, temporarily exposed by a building site, as they have not been for many years.
- Watch the world like a novelist. We all conform to an aesthetic, consciously or not, but there are choices and contours that distinguish everyone. Tracking the variety of ways people combine handbags and tracksuit bottoms, or trainers and ties, offers as much variety as comparing the patterns and colours of beetles and moths. No trend is ever perfectly static, and no person is ever entirely uniform.