WALTHAMSTOW: Photographer captures the lives of Londoners for exhibition (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

WALTHAMSTOW: Photographer captures the lives of Londoners for exhibition

4:12pm Thursday 11th March 2010 in

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A PHOTOGRAPHER from Walthamstow is to have her work exhibited at London's City Hall after she captured the lives of working people across the city.

Harriet Armstrong, 35, spent the past year photographing more than 200 people who work behind the scenes in the capital, to keep famous institutions running.

Her subjects included the men who make sure Big Ben chimes on time and the people who clean the windows on Canary Wharf tower.

The resulting collection of photographs, entitled 'Londoners', is set to go on display at City Hall later this month.

Ms Armstrong, of Northcote Road, said: "It has been an absolutely amazing journey.

"One of my highlights was being in the clocktower at Westminster and hearing Big Ben chime - it was deafening, but brilliant."

Ms Armstrong was inspired to start the collection after returning home late one night and wondering who cleaned up all of the papers from the Tube trains.

She said: "I just started looking at things differently and wondering who did the jobs that we take for granted.

"A lot of the people I spoke to have been in their professions for years and are passionate about the work they do, because they can see the difference they make to London.

"City Hall is a really ideal venue to celebrate the individual endeavours of these Londoners that are usually hidden from us."

'Londoners' will be on display from March 22 until May 7.

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