We can’t stop looking at Emily Webber’s blog, LondonShopFronts, a sort of anthropological look at the design and imaging of London shopfronts. While the original images are a bit dated (Webber took most of them in 2004), they create a visual vocabulary for Webber’s neighborhood, Hackney and its surroundings.
Initially interested in typography, revisiting the 2004 images spurred a new set of photographs that shift their focus from typography to entire shop fronts.
Creating a neighborhood lexicon, Webber captures something that guide books would never point out, but that introduce a city through diverse stories and personality.
