'The Platform'
Photographer Alejandro S. Garrido returns to Madrid with The Platform, a series in which he addresses the present of urban development in London, the city in which he resides. […] After photographing the financial heart of London in the series City of London (2018-19), the photographer continues his work observing the impact of the economic model on urban form. In The Platform (2019-20), the author documents the transformation that the British capital has been immersed in after the financial crisis of 2008. Garrido composes a panoramic view, through a selection of strategic locations, of the current situation of the city. These places, although scattered across the map, constitute a single emerging urban system. That is perhaps why they are particularly revealing when it comes to explaining both the accelerated financialization of which the city is subject, as well as the implications that this new mode of growth has on the lives of its inhabitants.
