Lewis K. Bush is a British photographer, writer, curator and educator.  He aims “to draw attention to forms of invisible power that operate in the world”, believing that “power is always problematic” because it is inherently “arbitrary and untransparent”.  London was once known as the Metropole, the mother city at the heart of a vast empire stretching across a quarter of the planet.  Produced during numerous winter night walks through the city, Metropole records the effect of this capital influx on London by documenting these new corporate high rises and luxury residential blocks as they are constructed and occupied.  Using double exposures to layer building over building, these structures becomes increasingly disorientating and threatening as the series progresses, obliterating scale, perspective and orientation, and emulating the sense of loss that many Londoners now feel.

Above is a comparison of my own photograph taken and edited and Lewis Bush’s own from the series ‘Metropole’.  Both of the photographs include a double exposure creating a blurred and busy effect on the photograph, this may be done intentionally by Bush to emphasis the thoughts he is trying to put across of the city and the ‘Metropole’ being a busy place with this rushing past, by creating a double exposure, maybe using the same image to angle it Bush is creating the effect that the building itself is rushing and moving which is implied by the way he presents the photograph that sits with the context of the project and the photograph was taken in.  Bush’s work has a lot of contrast in it’s photograph using the black and white whereas I am trying to use the blue tones to work together as the lights and the dark’s to create a contrast.  Both the photographs have a strong sense of line throughput the image, Bush’s photograph has very geometric and symmetrical lines whereas mine tend to be a bit more abstract themselves due to the angles and directions they go in.