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28/03/06: 
Londonnet
Snap Up the Underground Tube photos help Londoners become tourists in their own city
WINNERS of an innovative photography competition saw their work on exhibition at The Gallery on Cowcross Street last night.
Living in a Tubemap is billed as a chance for Londoners to look afresh at their city, specifically to take pictures of local Tube stations as if they were visitors seeing them for the first time.
The winning entries prove that every Londoner can be a tourist in their own city,� said Astrid Kirchner, the director of Living in a Tubemap. I hope this competition and exhibition will encourage more Londoners to look beyond their immediate surroundings;
Out of close to 1000 entries on that theme, nine winners have now been unveiled and are to be exhibited again in April.
Metro Article: 5 January 2006
Metro articles Do you know London well?
05 January 2006
A PROJECT encouraging people to look at the Capital through the eyes of a tourist is challenging Londoners to take part in an unusual photographic competition.
Astrid Kirchner, an Austrian artist now based in London, is the founder of a project - called ‘Living in a Tube map’ - which aims to challenge the perceptions of different areas in the capital and to rethink the way we move through London.
The project is inviting people to travel somewhere in the city that they haven’t been before, to observe the area and take an original photograph which captures London life.
Photographs and text can then be uploaded onto the project’s website and the best entries will become part of an exhibition being held from March 27 in The Gallery, Cowcross Street, East London.
Astrid said: ‘London has so much to offer and people should get out there and discover something new.
This project is a way to really get to know the places we all spend our daily lives in; we often overlook what is right in front of us.
‘Many people relate to London via the Tube map and in that sense Londoners live in a Tube map’, she explained.
The project has now been running for one year and over 50,000 people have visited the website, and participated in the project.
The project has also been launched in New York and Washington DC.
For more information about the project go to www.tubemap.org.
(source: TfL Website accessed 08.01.06)
Exhibition: PARTIALLY LONDON: 20/10/05 - 30/10/05 at The Foundry
On 9 September the project was mentioned in the London:By:London Newsletter run by the Friday Night Project:
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I run a project encouraging Londoner's to become tourists in London: www.tubemap.org ...it is also based on wiki, thus can be edited by everyone. There is going to be an exhibition in October and it would great if people would help me fill the blanks as well :)
Astrid
On 30 June 2005 the project was featured in the Architects Journal
On the 21st of February Astrid was invited to Robert Elms radio show on BBC London 94.9FM.
Here is the recording of this interview:
The project was also featured in Metro (free newspaper on tube) on 30 December 2004
Here you can upload your images:
