I'm Thinking of Leaving
FilmA silent film about London. Dissociation, distance and the loneliness of a crowded city.
Nothing is said. The city carries all of it.
HarryCawdron
Artist and designer. Dagenham, East London. The personal work behind the Cawdron studio.
- Subject
- East London
- Medium
- Photo · Film · Type · Print
- Location
- Barking & Dagenham
- Status
- Ongoing archive
I document East London. The place, and the people inside it.
This is my personal work. It records the city before it changes. Streets, estates, signage, transit, the ordinary things most people pass. I make it on the street first. Then I scan it, set it and print it. Photography, film and type, held together by one place.
Flagship · Item 001
Book · Edition of 2 · 2025
DAG001
Fig. 001 · DAG001, 74 pages, made by hand.
- Type
- Editorial archive and publication
- Role
- Research, curation and design
- Format
- 74-page book, edition of 2
- Year
- 2025
It began as a record of a disappearing place. It became a record of a disappearing self.
A 74-page book made from one place. Estate codes, signage, graffiti, receipts and collage, gathered by hand and set into an archive of Dagenham.
Every page was built physically before it was scanned. It was made to feel unstable, because that is how the place felt at the time.
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01
Sketchbook
Made by hand on the street. Estate codes, signage, graffiti, receipts.
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02
Scanned
Photocopied and pushed to high-contrast black and white.
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03
Reset
Cut, sequenced and typeset. Fragmented on purpose.
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04
Printed
74 pages, bound. Edition of two. Made in Dagenham.
Spreads · Items 01 to 06
Selected work · Items 002 to 003
Film · Photography
Selected Work
Concrete Silence
PhotographyA study of London's crowds, surfaces and transit spaces.
Documentary images and written fragments exploring isolation inside public life.
About · The practice
Dagenham
About
Harry Cawdron is an artist and designer based in Dagenham, East London.
The work documents the city. Ordinary places, working-class places, and what happens to them over time. The interest underneath is human. Memory, class, and belonging.
Everything is made physically first. On the street, in sketchbooks. Then scanned, set and printed into objects you can hold. Photography, film and type, one place.
Cawdron is the commercial studio. This is the personal work behind it.
- Based
- Dagenham, East London
- Education
- BA Graphic and Media Design
- Disciplines
- Photography · Film · Type · Print
- Available for
- Commissions · Editorial · Creative direction
- Studio
- cawdron.uk ↗