The street photographer Dougie Wallace caused a stir last October with his series, Harrodsburg, which he describes as an “exposé of the emergence of an ultra-affluent elite” in London. Mainly shot on the pavements of Kensington near Harrods, the images are classic confrontational street photography of the kind pioneered by American masters of the form like Garry Winogrand and Bruce Gilden.
When Wallace’s photographs of the tanned, rich, designer-clad shoppers were written about in the Doha News in Qatar, the result was nearly half a million visits to his online gallery and a storm of outraged criticism, which ranged from the threatening to the abusive. The story was reported by CNN and the Wall Street Journal and attested to the continuing power of traditional, old-school street photography to provoke and antagonise.
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