Pete Carr Photo

Writer & Photographer

Lumiere London

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I thought it would be nice to end the week with some pretty pictures so here’s a series I produced while in London earlier this year. Created by Artichoke, Lumiere London sees all sorts of interesting light installations around the city. It’s a big 4 day event and you’ll easily need 3 days to really take them all in. We just about managed. It was nice to see locals The Lantern Company there too.

I think my highlight was Waterlicht. It felt like I was back in Iceland watching the aurora, except with a thousand Instagrammers. But still, oddly calming.

The front of Westminster Abbey is lit in yellow, purple and blue lights from the base to the top.
Blue lasers light up the nights sky as people walk around underneath. A cyclist's bike projects a green beam of light onto the ground and 2 cyclists near the camera.
People walk through a triangular walkway lit up with purple lights.
A child looks into a phone box that appears to be filled like a fishtank.
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. At the base of the column are lots of lit up balloons.
Buildings in a large courtyard space are lit up. Green on the right and blue on the left. In the center is a yellow rectangle with blue and green overlapping circles on it.
A sculpture has what seem to be dumbells hanging from it. Each one glows as people hit them.
Inbetween 2 shutters covered in grafitti is a glowing outline of a head. The brain is pink with stars lit up inside it.
A representation of a bike glows red.
In a courtyard there are lit up hanging plants surrounding the space. The buildings are old traditional London buildings.
A woman sits on a man who is lying down on a glowing green park bench.
Red and green lit up string stretches around trees in a square.
A building in Piccadiliy Circus has colourful projections on it. People gather and watch.
Lit up flamingos fly through the streets by a Chinese Arch in London.
A classic British phone box appears to be filled with fish like a fishtank. People gather round to look at it.
The doorway at the base of Westminster Abbey is lit up in blue and yellow coloured lights to emphasie the original architectural details.
Two people look at blue lasers projecting through fog. The woman rests her hand on the mans back.
People ride lit up see-saws and laugh.
A line of blue lights hang like iceicles across the nights sky in a park.
On the South Bank people walk through a triangular walkway that is lit up with purple lighting.

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