King of the blocks is about the social injustice of the effects of gentrification on council estates and the surrounding communities. Southwark council have created a housing crisis in a time where residents need to be protected, in an area that was once home to what was considered the largest council estate in Europe. Aylesbury estate is now a lifeless shell, with very few residents remaining there after majority of them being evicted in anticipation of the regeneration. What use to be a blended society has now been divided and culture is being replaced, the foundation of what made Southwark is being diminished. Residents describe the area as, “cultured, rundown, and regenerated”. Through imagery I hope to tell the story on behalf of a voiceless community.

Below are scans of a notebook I took around Southwark, the words are the first three things residents wrote that came to mind when I asked about the area.