The Tower
Max Reeves
Photography, Psychogeography, Streetscape
A circumnavigation of the Shard Tower in London at the height of the Corona Pandemic.
Spring 2020 A5 150 pages full colour
ISBN 978-1-9998281-6-5
“London’s new breed of towers are constructed at ground-level like flak towers all but barricaded to the street and the pedestrian, their bases thick, they mass energy and power and direct it skywards. Reeves’ project enables a vignette study of the built environment of London in the early 21st century, and its timing represents a pause in the phase of globalisation which the Shard represents and participates within. While the Shard’s unclear function remains opaque, a more pedestrian London is brought into focus. Throughout, this book explores the asymmetrical tension between the tower which stands over man, and Reeves’ camera-gaze fixated on the patterns of the streets, the paving, the underneath...”
Anthony Iles