David Silva
Two women smile into a phone held up for a photo in a crowded street.

Human street moments · London

From last light to last train

Part one

One Saturday

19 October 2024, from 14:59 to 21:40. One camera, one 35mm lens.

A young woman covers her mouth and laughs at a table with a bunch of roses.
A young man in sunglasses and a black jacket walks through a crowd.
An older man in glasses reads at a pavement café table, a coffee cup beside him.
A man walks away down a narrow cobbled lane lined with black bollards, in low sun.
Two young women laugh as they walk, one with pink hair holding an orange drink.
A woman in a patterned scarf smiles in a busy street.
Two chefs in aprons work at the pass of a busy restaurant kitchen.
A dancer in a sequinned dress performs on a square at dusk as a man films her.
An older woman with white hair looks out from a red bus window at night.
An older woman smiles behind the lit window of a bus, shopping on her lap.

For one frame everyone was moving in a different direction under the church.

Three people cross a street at night in front of All Souls church, its spire lit gold.
All Souls, Langham Place
A full Tube carriage, passengers sitting in two rows holding blue poles.
The Tube
An empty Tube carriage, blue seats on both sides.
The Tube

Part two

Other nights

Soho, Brick Lane, the river and the stations. 2024 to 2026.

An older woman in a bright scarf and green jacket stands on a street at dusk beside a man.
A woman with red hair in a leopard coat and red satin skirt walks along a street at night.
People stand in a queue on a pavement at night.
Two people look into a lit cake shop window under flowers and a neon sign.
9 October 2026
The lit front of Beigel Bake on Brick Lane at night, a worker inside.
Beigel Bake, Brick Lane
A young man with a green guitar on his back walks across a bridge at night.
Tower Bridge
A woman walks down the curved, lamp-lit stairs into Piccadilly Circus station.
Piccadilly Circus station, 9 October 2026
Two figures in the lit doorway of Bow Road station at night.
Bow Road
A man walks alone down a dark lane beside a brick wall.
Portrait of David Silva.

About

I photograph people in London’s light.

Someone crossing a wet street, waiting in a doorway, laughing on a corner. Mostly late in the day and after dark, with one camera and a 35mm lens.

On Sunday mornings I photograph the car meets, for the same reason.

The book

It Started on a Sunday

The car meets of Surrey and south-west London. Out 15 November 2026.

Presets

LAST ROLL and KERBSIDE

The Lightroom looks I grade with. LAST ROLL · KERBSIDE

Contact

Commissions, prints and licensing

davidslv.london@gmail.com
@davidslv.photography