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Amazingness is largely a photography project, the photographs being taken mostly in urban London. An important aspect of the work is that it actually shows the interaction between nature and built structures, often in terms of colour, shape and form, showing how one thing often enhances the other, but also giving context to the image.

The Knife Rack is generally your photography guy but I felt I had to write a post about this photographer. This is an artist that I discovered while I was still at Uni,  I walked past a shop and one of her pictures was in the window, I was immediately struck by it. So I did that really helpful thing of stopping staring at it, trying to impress her name on my memory then walked home, I then promptly forgot to search for her on the internet and so forgot her name.

I then found her again a year later in Greenwich market, I got really excited took a card and did almost exactly the same thing lost the card and couldn’t remember her name. But every time I went to Greenwich market with people I would drag them to where I had found her and she wouldn’t be there… This led to people thinking I was a bit nuts and had made up a photographer. So the next time I went I bought some post cards of her work to show people she did actually exist. But as yet I have still not been able to go to the market with someone and find her stand. But she has a website so she must exist…

Anyway, I love the photographs she has of close ups of bits of plant life in the grimy south London streets, she is based and works around Deptford, New Cross and Greenwich (which is where I am based so that is part of the obsession). But these high colour photographs show the plant life to be found even in the heart of London and not in a park just on the street. Being the country based lass that I am, I never really missed the country when I moved to the big city but I do also like the concept of the urban and wild working together combining and growing. These photos could be miniscule gardens in a sea of concrete. Tiny forns creeping skyward between brickwork and broken bottles. I like the idea that these tiny plants will keep growing till they take over and surround the concrete around them, pushing through the cracks and twisting around the drainpipes.

Click here to see more of her work. All the pictures here are some of my favourite ones…