Effra Sewer, South London

May 2, 2013 – London, England, United Kingdom – Effra Sewer, South London, UK. What does it feel like to find the city’s edges, to explore its hidden tunnels and scale its skyscrapers? Place hacking, also known as urban exploration and infiltration, is the practice of accessing off-limits spaces in the city, seeing what you are not supposed to see. From the lost underground stations of London to abandoned cold war bunkers and ruins in Eastern Europe to the tallest construction projects in Paris, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Las Vegas, place hackers exploit holes in urban security to reveal the hidden world. The photos from these adventures are both documentation of secret space and a political statement about our rights to the city. ..Bradley L. Garrett, the photographer, is a writer, explorer and researcher at the University of Oxford. His new book, Explore Everything: Place Hacking the City will be released by Verso in October. (Credit Image: © Bradley Garrett/eyevine/ZUMAPRESS.com)