12 otherworldly photos of London’s beautiful skyline

BY MAYA NINEL ROBERT From Mashable

LONDON — A new book is exploring London’s landscape from its uppermost heights. Urban explorers Bradley L. Garrett, Alexander Moss and Scott Cadman spent seven years exploring the city’s subterranean architecture and now in London Rising they’ve turned their attention to the birds eye views that are generally not accessible to the average inhabitant.

The result of seeing these “iconic” buildings from high and unfamiliar angles gives London industrialism an otherworldly eeriness, and makes for a startling intimate portrait of a faceless city.

“Our images of London’s infrastructural, social and corporate heights do not resonate because they are spectacular but because they are intimate,” London Rising says. “They are about loving relationships with the place.”

Alexandra Palace
IMAGE: BRADLEY L. GARRETT
Battersea Power Station Ascent
IMAGE: PHOTO: MARC EXPLO
British Museum, Bloomsbury
Denning Point, Aldgate
IMAGE: BRADLEY L. GARRETT
Gasometers, Hornsey
IMAGE: BRADLEY L. GARRETT
King’s Reach Tower, Southwark
IMAGE: WINCH
NEO Bankside, Southwark
IMAGE: MIKE DEERE
Petticoat Tower, City of London
IMAGE: BRADLEY L. GARRETT
Shard, Southwark
IMAGE: BRADLEY L. GARRETT
Unnamed Estate, Bethnal Green
IMAGE: THOMAS DEKEYSER
Westfields, Hammersmith
IMAGE: ALASTAIR BATCHELOR
Unnamed Construction Crane, City of London
IMAGE: LUCA CARENZO
London Rising is available from Prestel Publishing.

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