Walking the Westway
The elevated section of the famous red-route Westway links West London to Central and North London. Above, the cityscape opens to reveal high-rise developments towering over hazardous junkyards, train lines and rail network buildings, rooftop bus stations, cement works, storage yards and acres of unfinished redevelopments and building work. Beneath are grimy corners and dumping grounds, memorials, protest graffiti, caravans and unfortunate souls living on the street in plain sight. Tracing a route more often only glimpsed at speed from a fast-moving car, these images bring together these two levels of life in the shadow of Grenfell Tower.
Words by Diane Smyth
