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This is a major billboard project commissioned by the ‘Art on the Underground’ (initially as a response to the launch of the night trains). It focuses on night – time workers, with a number of interviews made with those who work between 8 to 12 hour night shifts, including Laura (the woman in the image) who has been working as security guard, night shift, for over 16 years! Using ‘fragments’ of their stories, the text attempts to depict ‘interiority’, i.e. the interior emotional states of the individuals, their resilience, and the sense of being on the ‘other side’. The images take a more abstract approach to the portrayal of the people who live on the margin and remain invisible. These images stand in for a wider community of night-time workers living as if on the edge of the city. The billboards being displayed at huge scale in the city centre, is an attempt to bring the margin to the centre, – to indicate the significance of the people whose work is essential to the city’s exitence , without which the city would not survive!
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