LondonThe story of these images of London starts at a second hand bookshop in Tallahassee, Florida in 1997. Driving from Miami to Boston, with all my possessions in tow, I bought a very damaged copy of Thomas Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow, which took me 2 years to read. Somewhere within those 2 years, a painter friend showed me Frank Auerbachs paintings of London in ruins after the Blitz. These works showed a city in mid flight, at once being built and

and close friends now live an entire world away

Originally published in 1986

worthless studios embarked on a road trip across the United States in an Airstream-turned-darkroom with the FREE FILM team

triggering similar evocative effects in a viewer’s mind

Described by its editor Vijay Prashad as about “the beauty and tragedy of our world

As the sequence progresses

where all the books in the CLAP

He used the medium to build loose narratives and to showcase his extraordinary projects

000 pictures

In assembling a visual account of the struggle to find his own voice and narrate the fragmented history of his family

however that time he did not make it through

Allen’s meditative meandering of the natural world is punctuated by moments when things appear out of place