Both crime-ridden and trendy, Hackney is one of the host boroughs for the Olympic Games in London.
Zed Nelson’s work appeared on Lens in 2010, showing how bodily transformations reflect globalization.
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It is also the home of the photographer Zed Nelson, who spent much of his childhood in this racially and culturally diverse area that occupies seven square miles of London.“It has violence, beauty, wildlife, concrete wastelands, poverty and affluence jumbled together, vying for space,” he recently wrote. “It is tattered and fractured, but very alive.”
