Danny Rowland Photography: London - March 2014

I have just returned from what I can only explain as the best experience in my whole life. I was lucky enough to be able to travel down to London with some of my Uni class and have the opportunity to meet some of the top photographers working down there and visit some amazingly inspiring galleries. There are some quick snaps taken on my mobile phone on the go to illustrate this experience and give you a look into London and the studios.

My first visit once we had been checked into our hotel in Russell Square was the Photographers Gallery just off Oxford Street. We headed to the nearest tube station and boarded a train. This was my first ever experience of the London Underground system and it was an amazing surprise, the underground stations were an amazing place to explore, they differ so much from each other that some of them are like stepping into another world. Once we arrived at the gallery we took a good look around working our way from the top to the bottom of the gallery. Not all of the work was very inspiring, a lot of the 'art' that was on the walls didn't appeal to me. However there was one exhibition that was right up my street; David Lynch’s "The Factory Photographers". A little preview of this can be seen here: http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/the-factory-photographs

After this gallery, we went off to Westminster to have a look at the London Eye and Big Ben. I thought Big Ben would have been a little bigger than it was, but it was still nice to have the opportunity to see it. We took a walk across the bridge to the South Bank and found the Undercroft which had a petition to sign in order for the park to not be re-located or re-designed turning it into a retail space. I immediately signed this, the space is amazing! It's so nice to see a place for people to skate and generally hang out. There are enough spaces in London to add more retail space too. More on this can be found here: http://www.llsb.com/about/ and it would be amazing for more people to take action on this matter.