Press

Please help us. To truly capture London, we’ll need to capture Londoners. And to do that, we want your readers/listeners/viewers to show the world how they see their stop. 

If you’ve got any questions, drop us an email; and find our press release here: http://alighthere.co.uk/features/pressrelease

In the meantime, here’s a bit of the coverage we’ve had so far…

The New Yorker: “There’s poetry about the subway… but probably nothing as comprehensive as the aim of “Alight Here,” a project that seeks to collect at least one poem or image for each of the London Underground’s two hundred and seventy tube stations…. a portrait of the Underground is already emerging. The photos are colorful and strangely futuristic, and the poems are quick and clever.” (Read full article)

Spoonfed London: “We at Spoonfed think it’s a wonderful idea – after all, tube stations are our speciality seeing as collectively we (like most other Londoners) spend an infuriating amount of time pressed up in fellow commuters’ armpits trying to cling on around the broadsheet reading space hoggers. In fact, it’s got us all thinking about our favourite and least favourite stops.” (Read full article)

The Londonist: “Why didn’t we think of this idea?” (Read full article)

Slow London: “So go on, switch the iPhone to camera mode or swap the newspaper for a notebook, and while away your next journey creatively.” (Read full article)