Throne
Watney Market is a small municipal market in London's East End off the Commercial Road and close to Shadwell Station. Like most markets in the East End, it has a long history serving the local community. The market now provides for a largely Asian based community, selling a wide range of household goods, fruit and vegetables. Lining the local market are a number of shops and cafes equally as popular and busy as the market.
Above the market concourse are flats which house the local community. Yet what is largely unknown is the large cavernous underground parking area that lies underneath the market complex which provides parking and storage for the market traders and shops.
This is an area that has fascinated me for a number of years, historically as a marketing inspector and now as a photography project. I have been photographing the area for a number of years documenting this Dickensian labyrinth underground.
Homeless Home
The space has been home/refuge and meeting place for drug dealers, addicts, homeless people and decay generally. Unloved and poorly managed; I have, in this undocumented London environment, attempted to photograph the atmosphere in a purposely 'raw' way to encapsulate the life underground.
Red's RIP
To see more from Paul, He is featured within Issue 13: 'Urban'
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