In February 1971, Mats Örn sailed from Gothenburg to London from his native Sweden. He’d return in 1975 and 1977, taking in a tour of Madame Tussaud’s waxwork museum, where he took photos of the insanely creepy exhibits. He walked about Portobello Road, photographing the people there and the stuff they were looking to trade. And he took a stroll around Oxford Street, then the UK’s ultimate shopping destination. He took photos of the shops and the shoppers.
Tilbury, River Thames, England. Feb.1971
Second floor on a London Bus. Feb.1971
Waiting for changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Feb.1971
Newspaper stand, London. Feb.1971
Streets of London – Oxford Circus, Feb.1971
Streets of London. Feb.1971
Whitehall, Streets of London. Feb.1971
Piccadilly Circus, London. Feb.1971
Streets of London. Feb.1971
Streets of London, Newman Street. Feb.1971
Finance District, London. Feb.1971
The Tower, London. Feb.1971
The River Thames, London. Feb.1971
Streets of London. Feb.1971
2001, Poland Street, London. Feb.1971
London. Feb.1971
Portobello Road, London. Feb.1971
Portobello Road, London. Feb.1971
My first trip to London. Piccadilly Circus. Feb.1971
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