Honorable Mention TOKYO-2016 Editorial / Political

Regeneration

  • Photographer
    Kit Oates

Photographer installs giant posters of locals across housing estate due for demolition. Images now on display in Central London London photographer Kit Oates has documented the different and changing generations that grew up on a North London housing estate undergoing regeneration by the government. Kit took portraits of the locals in the diverse community, and put them up on buildings the council plans to demolish. London has seen a property boom in the last four years, which makes it difficult for people on low incomes to buy a property. Old broken social housing is making way for new social housing. The residents are seeing the homes and the area they grew up in change rapidly.