Vultus Photo

London is booming. There's an estimate of over 18 million of tourists to visit UK capital in 2014, unparalleled property market, City, there are jobs. London is growing - it's economy is set to expand by 15% over the next five years to 2019, according to a forecast from the Centre for Economics and Business Research. It's forecast that by 2031 Greater London population should reach over 10 million, from current 8.2 million. London is an opportunity, a dream, a modern day Klondike: it deals in futures - literally and directly, on all levels, starting with Russian oligarchs and ending with African refugees. Part of this trade deals in commodities such as esteem, social security and integration, in exchange for cold, hard cash whilst inducing curiosity and surprise in enormous flow of London's visitors. It's "brokers" and "traders" are based - although not very far away from Square Mile geographically - in social no-man's land: they spend their days dressed up as Charlie Chaplin, Yoda or Shrek, they approach tourists, preying on their naiveté and charging agency-level fees for photo ops in Southbank and around London Eye; some of them are outstanding con artists, offering a gamble or two...

A collection of London street photography.   For me, photography was always about the street - unmoderated, raw, "straight-talking" environment. The general idea behind these photos is to capture the "soul" of the moment, refering to social, political and cultural actualities.

A few "nitty-gritty" headshots, isolated from street explorations.

The gym front in Bankside, London, tossed me an invite to explore possible juxtapositions around it. The result came out in form of highlights of body image obsession.

Short, momentary set on Westminster bridge - these three pictures are in chronological order, situation fully developed in a matter of 10 minutes, starting with a photo taken through the window.

A quick look at the surveillance and lighting systems - brutal esthetics of pure functionality.