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Two Metres

hamish stewart — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:57:27 +0000

Two Metres – just an arbitrary measure of distance; it does not really have any meaning because it could be 1 metre or 1.55 metre. Yet in March 2020 in the UK Two Metres became a new proscribed social distance we had to abide by. During multiple lockdowns during Covid-19 I documented my walks and the changing environment that this time brought.

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New London and Paris projects

hamish stewart — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:07:12 +0000

Over the last 12 months I have slowly started to add some new London projects to the site. Action or Extinction is another London bus project to complement An Elevated View. A Journey Along the Lea is my third project exploring London's second river. The Not so Silent Line continues the transport theme but in Paris.

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The Not so Silent Line

hamish stewart — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:26:47 +0000

La Petite Ceinture in Paris is a railway and a landscape in limbo, a biodiversity corridor around the edges of the city.

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Exploring Photobooks

hamish stewart — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:23:33 +0000

Over the last few years I have been exploring how to translate some of my projects into book form, here are some examples

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Action or Extinction

hamish stewart — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:04:57 +0000

Action or Extinction. Three words on a billboard, made me look at my daily commute in a different way.
I started looking at the street below in a different way. Out of the shadows and the murky windows emerged oddly de-populated spaces — only to be replaced by the hordes emerging from the caves and streets below.

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A Journey Along the Lea

hamish stewart — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 13:27:33 +0000

'A tale of two Swannes' a journey along the Lea, exploring London's second river via a non-linear route, criss-crossing the Lea Valley from wetlands to urban edgelands and beyond - a journey of discovery.

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Borderlands

hamish stewart — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:24:27 +0000

Borders define the spaces in-between — the crossing points from one place to another. Following the course of London’s second river, the Lea, I’ve discovered the series of edgelands — real, historical and mythological that occur along it’s path.

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An Elevated View

hamish stewart — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 11:30:46 +0000

This is a commuter’s perspective of London - a passing view of the city defined by the top deck of a London bus. It’s a familiar streetscape caught in a series of momentary glances as the bus lurches and sways to its destination.

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Meandering along the Lea

hamish stewart — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:30:41 +0000

While we may know the Thames, the Lea, London’s second river is perhaps less familiar. Yet it has its own history and identity - walking along its towpaths you discover a constantly managed space that has been re-constructed and diverted since the 12th Century.

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Paris Murs

hamish stewart — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:59:42 +0000

I’ve been walking the same Paris streets and re-tracing my steps countless times to observe the ephemeral and the permanent of the street art of the city. While Mosko et Associés prowling tigers at Villa de L’Ermitage are long gone the urban tigers at Rue des Rosiers remain much as I first found them in 2006 - though someone has added 'nature strikes back' over the original work.

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