Artist Simon Pope completed a 26-mile walk through London’s five Olympic boroughs accompanied, on his 12-hour journey, by over a hundred local residents. The relay was filmed in real-time. It is an astonishing and poignant portrait of a London past, present and future…
The route taken, from south east London, spiralled across the Thames and ending up, 26 miles later, at the Olympic stadium construction site in Stratford.