Dark Island: Exercise Walks Colin Priest
Flowers collected on Friday 8th May 2020.
On Monday 23rd March 2020, the UK Government implemented a nationwide lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This urgent action introduced various forms of social-distancing, selfisolation, shielding and self-quarantine. During this time on my solitary Government sanctioned exercise walks, I took photographs nearly every day on my mobile phone. As a visual record these have been compiled as a part of a series of ongoing works commenced in 2011, titled Dark Island that explore the changing nature and boundaries of the area. Exercise Walks captures the empty streets, improvised signage and overlooked views that helped ground my senses at an extraordinary time in a usually boisterous urban island I call home. Here, walking the topography as it grades to waterways and building sites, not sure Hackney Wick and Fish Island will ever feel this way again. Colin
Wallis Road, taken 29th March 2020
White Post Lane, taken 1st April 2020
Wallis Road, taken 1st April 2020
Wick Green, taken 4th April 2020
Wallis Road, taken 5th April 2020
Carpenters Road, taken 5th April 2020
White Post Lane, taken 5th April 2020
Lee Navigation Canal, taken 10th April 2020
Eastway, taken 10th April 2020
Here East, taken 10th April 2020
White Post Lane, taken 12th April 2020
Lee Navigation Canal, taken 12th April 2020
Wallis Road, taken 12th April 2020
White Post Lane, taken 12th April 2020
Copper Street, taken 12th April 2020
Wallis Road, taken 13th April 2020
White Post Lane, taken 16th April 2020
White Post Lane, taken 17th April 2020
White Post Lane, taken 18th April 2020
Greenway, taken 18th April 2020
Wansbeck Road, taken 18th April 2020
Lee Conservancy Road, taken 19th April 2020
Hepscott Road, taken 20th April 2020
Lesney Avenue, taken 20th April 2020
Copper Street, taken 22nd April 2020
Wallis Road, taken 23rd April 2020
Wallis Road, taken 23rd April 2020
Eastway, taken 24th April 2020
Lesney Avenue, taken 24th April 2020
Carpenters Road, taken 25th April 2020
Hackney Wick Bus Station, taken 25th April 2020
Smeed Road, taken 26th April 2020
Monier Road, taken 26th April 2020
Eastway, taken 26th April 2020
Wansbeck Road, taken 26th April 2020
Wansbeck Road, taken 26th April 2020
Wallis Road, taken 27th April 2020
Chapman Road, taken 28th April 2020
Hepscott Road, taken 29th April 2020
Stour Road, taken 30th April 2020
Wick Road, taken 30th April 2020
Marshgate Lane, taken 30th April 2020
Eastway, 1st May 2020
White Post Lane, taken 1st May 2020
Chapman Road, taken 1st may 2020
Marshgate Lane, taken 2nd May 2020
Beachy Road, taken 2nd May 2020
Roach Road, taken 2nd May 2020
Wallis Road, taken 3rd May 2020
London Stadium towpath, taken 3rd May 2020
Felstead Street, taken 4th May 2020
Osborne Road, taken 4th May 2020
Eastway, taken 4th May 2020
Copper Street, taken 6th May 2020
Wallis Road Bridge, taken 6th May 2020
Berkshire Road, taken 7th May 2020
Lee Navigation Canal, taken 7th May 2020
E Bay Lane, taken 7th May 2020
Eastcross Square, taken 7th May 2020
Lee Navigation Canal, taken 7th May 2020
Monier Road, taken 7th May 2020
Wansbeck Road, taken 7th May 2020
Trego Road, taken 7th May 2020
Felstead Street, taken 9th May 2020
Prince Edward Road, taken 9th May 2020
Wallis Road, taken 9th May 2020
Dace Road, taken 9th May 2020
Greenway, taken 9th May 2020
Lesney Avenue, taken 9th May 2020
Wallis Road, taken 9th May 2020
Eastway, taken 10th May 2020
Clarnico Lane, taken 10th May 2020
White Post Lane, taken 10th May 2020
Marshgate Lane, taken 11th May 2020
Eastway, taken 12th May 2020
Marshgate Lane, taken 12th May 2020
Wansbeck Road, taken 12th May 2020
First published digitally on Saturday 16th May 202o All photographs taken by Colin Priest. Friday 23rd March – Wednesday 13th May 2020. www.studiocolumba.com