We've transformed 14-16 Leather Lane, EC1N into a quality coffee shop. A renovated and remodelled architectural ironmongers, the site is a collaboration of coffee professionals, designers and artists who aspire to build a coffee-focused social hub for residents and office workers in the area.
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Façades

‘Façades’ is an intimate depiction of urban life in London. The result of a two-and-a-half year project, it portrays London from the perspective of London-based Finnish photographer Carita Laamanen.

Photographed on black-and-white 35mm film, Laamanen’s work confronts photography itself as much as it does her subject matter. The intrinsic fleetingness of the photographic image is used to incredible effect in this series of works that question and challenge the commonly perceived façades seen to represent the city we know.

‘Façades’ is part of the Photomonth East London Photography Festival 2011, celebrating the diversity of contemporary photography. To find out more about the exhibition visit www.coffeesmithscollective.co.uk/art