Walking Distance featured on It’s Nice That

An excerpt from the feature:

Settling in Hackney, the environment around Sarah is one she describes as a world away – quite literally when you consider the distance – from her home. “For someone from such a small and newly colonised country it is wild coming to a comparatively ancient city like London for the first time,” she tells It’s Nice That. “It’s a place that I’d read about, or seen in films and TV, my whole life.” And so Sarah took in the city the way she knew best as a photographer, setting out on walks to document her new neighbourhood.

In doing so Sarah’s created Walking Distance, a document of the warmth London can provide; its own distinct communities, dialects and individual characters, collected photographically over the past five years. “I loved London and especially Hackney, the borough I settled in, straight away,” she continues …