Ana Kinsella explains how lockdown made her rethink her relationship with London 📚
is an observation of London it is also one of Kinsella herself. The book is perceptive on how priorities can shift and change over early adulthood, and Kinsella is particularly deft at weaving connections between her personal experience and cities. “There was nothing more honest to me than getting up in the morning and putting on something I loved to wear.
HC: I remember there were a lot of quite frenzied, almost manic ‘lockdown diaries’ published online early on in the pandemic. I appreciatedbecause it felt quite removed, and considered. I think it’s valuable as a record, that was written during the lockdowns, that lacks the hysteria of early pandemic writing.
HC: There was a line in the book from your interview with the photographer Jermaine Francis that really stood out to me. He said: “That’s the thing about space that I was trying to investigate: that I’m a photographer, I’m observing people, and then suddenly I become the observed, too.” I felt that this could apply to your own book too, that it’s ‘on the pleasures of observing the city’ but is as much an observation of yourself too.
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