• The uncanny emptiness of the wealth-accumulating city: Jordi Barreras’s best photograph

    The uncanny emptiness of the wealth-accumulating city: Jordi Barreras’s best photograph
    ‘This lone figure, overwhelmed by the scale of the buildings around her, was part of series about work culture and burnout’
    When I moved to the UK nearly a decade ago, the City of London was one of the first places I visited. I joined a Jack the Ripper tourist walking tour on a Sunday, and I was really struck by how empty it was. All the shops and restaurants were closed, and just a few people were walking in the streets. It was shocking that one of the economic centres of the UK, on

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