Photographer Andy Billman is exhibiting a photography series at the London Festival of Architecture that captures bricked-up windows of homes throughout the UK capital.
The series, which is named Daylight Robbery, aims to comment on the important role that air and natural light play in architecture and wellbeing.
Billman was invited to exhibit it at Bermondsey Project Space for the London Festival of Architecture in recognition of its relevance to this year's theme of care.
Billman is exhibiting Daylight Robbery photography at LFA
While some of the bricked-up windows, often known as blind windows, captured in Daylight Robbery were created to offer visual symmetry, many were the result of the Window Tax ? a property tax introduced in 1696 that charged owners based on the number of windows a building had. To avoid paying the tax, many homeowners covered or bricked up their window spaces before and during its roll-out. Some were never uncovered or have since become listed.
The series captures bricked-up windows across London
"As a photographer of the built environment, I wanted to create compelling images to help bring an untold story from that past to life that we can take learnings from today," London-based Billman told Dezeen.
"When London Festival of Architecture announced their theme of care, the project was a perfect fit with the festival, and it was clear to me that I could encourage discussion around wellbeing in the spaces we create today through my wo...