Where is happiness to be found?

Where is happiness to be found? (1)

Stratford, recognised as one of London’s most deprived areas, has had a huge amount of money pumped into it, but will this money actually benefit local people? Or, will the inevitable price rises lock them out?

Where is happiness to be found? (2)

A security guard is dwarfed by a god-like figure at Westfield shopping centre, Stratford.

One heartbeat away

Estimates for the cost of the Games, a two-week sporting event, are as high as £10 billion. How will this affect people’s lives in a recession?

Way to Salvation

With their bags of shopping people leave Stratford, the new consumer paradise.

Stratford to the Porto Olímpico

Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

Beginning,

Olympic Stadium, Stratford

completed.

Bus in Stratford


Belief in Sky,

Eu Quero é Deus - I want God
Construction workers' helmets at the Maracanã


belief in God.

Stratford station

Towards the Olympic Park,

Elevated motorway


towards the Porto Olímpico. 

From Stratford station


The need to be known

From the underpass, Rio de Janeiro


is universal.