Photos which you see below were taken today in the afternoon. we were asked to walk around Elephant&Castle and get lost somewhere...to drift. well I don't really know E&C so well, even after one year studies in London South Bank University. I never actually walk around much, only to the terrible shopping centre- Tesco exactly and to the tube. so it was very easy for me to get lost and drift around. I discovered abandoned streets and off street passages. abandoned places, looking very horrifying. E&C is a various area of different places, streets, buildings, pubs. Is it beautiful? not really I would say. I think in evening time it can be really dangerous in some places. I was for me exiting exercise and I think I will do it again soon, I would like to drift more E&C. All the photos which you can see I took using my small digital camera, not the digital SLR, I thing for than kind of exercise small compact cameras or mobile phones with built in cameras are perfect, giving you more options as you can behave as paparazzi and shoot everywhere and everything, also I felt much more secure with this Sony cybershot.

P.S I found this nice description of drifting on the web:

..The situationist' desire to become psychogeographers, with an understanding of the 'precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals', was intended to cultivate an awareness of the ways in which everyday life is presently conditioned and controlled, the ways in which this manipulation can be exposed and subverted, and the possibilities for chosen forms of constructed situations in the post-spectacular world. Only an awareness of the influences of the existing environment can encourage the critique of the present conditions of daily life, and yet it is precisely this concern with the environment which we live which is ignored.

"The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance which is automatically followed in aimless strolls (and which has no relation to the physical contour of the ground); the appealing or repelling character of certain places - all this seems to be neglected."