Monday 7 March 2011

London submerged

I stumbled across these at the Museum of London -- an exhibition of very clever photomontages, mounted on light-boxes, showing London landmarks after major climate change or catastrophes or social upheaval:


From a submerged Palace of Westminster to a sand-bound Tower Bridge:


A shanty-town in Trafalgar Square:


To Horse Guards in a desert landscape:


Paddy-fields in Parliament Square:


To the final catastrophe, a shanty town built on London's royal parks:


Somehow in the middle of such poverty, the queen still manages to cling on to her private gardens at Buck House. Some things never change.

1 comment:

Viollet said...

That's not a clever photomontage of Trafalgar Square. That's what it looks like now.