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always compelled by the financial centres, both in terms of their urban fabric and morphology, though also by the people that inhabit it with such intensity during the working hours and then leave it empty for the dark and wind swept and silent during the weekend. the arguement is that the city (corporation of london) is under-studied, debated and observed, particularly by urbanists 

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last summer that there was an abundance of men in the city wearing pink shirts under their suits, which seemed to play heavily against the idea, be it an evidenced cliche, of these chaps being bullish in character, that they act/work without emotion, that they are emotionless, as the £ and numbers predominate their ethics

wondered if on the contrary the city runs on entirely on emotion, as 'confidence' still dominates decision making. 'confidence' is an acute emotion. "Confidence is good, but over confidence for false confidence has been the key cause of every severe economic and financial crisis" (from a Bloomberg publication)

city pink, undertaken with nanna nielsen, was a small project to explore this idea; that the men we photographed are not 'the emotionally barren' but perhaps highly emotionally intelligent and that their everyday work requires and demands an acute emotional awareness 

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all photographs were taken with small 2mg digital cameras, all photographs (except one or two) taken outside the royal exchange. photographs shown are just a handful of the tens of pink shirts photographed  

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