Queues for the Queen
Queues for the Queen explores the development of a massive snaking queue in London following the death of the Queen. The Queue, originally formed by mourners waiting to pay their respects, eventually took on a life of its own, becoming itself an attraction.
Against the backdrop of London’s great monuments to its imperial past, the mourners become indistinct in the endless line, the scene evidences a peculiar social behaviour that compelled a quarter of a million people to queue for up to 10 miles. The images explore the search for what it means to be British in the modern international age and aims to show how people may no longer share the same binding cultural history but still yearn for an event that invigorates a sense of unity and coming together.
Against the backdrop of London’s great monuments to its imperial past, the mourners become indistinct in the endless line, the scene evidences a peculiar social behaviour that compelled a quarter of a million people to queue for up to 10 miles. The images explore the search for what it means to be British in the modern international age and aims to show how people may no longer share the same binding cultural history but still yearn for an event that invigorates a sense of unity and coming together.
