// photo essay //
Spring 2016

Foreign Exposure
Avi Schwarzschild

“The coffee is smaller but the beer is larger.” This was one of my first in a series of observations about London. For my entire working memory, New York City has been home. I have never experienced the Empire State Building, Broadway, or Central Park as novel attractions because they were essentially my backyard. Ironically, only when I left the tourist capital of the world did I ever truly experience tourism first-hand. As a visitor in London, living outside of New York for the first time in my life, I experienced the world’s other financial capital through a completely new lens. In this collection, I have captured some of London’s most iconic sites from angles that evoke unconventional perspectives, reflecting my new perspective on what “home” means. I can only ever see London through something else–embracing a new home, vaguely.

Skylight in the British Museum

Santander Bikes, the London bike-sharing program

Covent Garden as seen from inside a phone booth

Sky reflected in a phone booth

London sky through the London Eye

A busy parliament street seen through a phone booth

\\ AVI SCHWARZSCHILD is a junior in SEAS and Photo Editor for ​The Current. He is currently studying abroad in London. He can be reached at aks2203@columbia.edu.