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<a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/books/londons-lost-rivers-a-walkers-guide/" target="_blank"><em>London's Lost Rivers</em></a> photographer SF Said is the subject of a full length feature in Abu Dhabi's <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/london-city-of-dreams-and-rivers-caught-on-polaroid#full" target="_blank">The National</a> magazine

<em>“I find it wonderful that London is a kind of palimpsest, that it contains all these layers of history and experience,” says Said. “The lost rivers project was a perfect way into that. I am fascinated by the idea that landscapes might have memories or dreams.”</em>

<em>Said loves expired film, particularly in a range thrillingly titled Time Zero. Far from ruining an image, its ageing, unstable chemicals contribute to the dreamlike quality of his pictures. Leaking colours; blurring; unexposed corners; flame-like flashes of light across the surface; smoky shades of mauve and turquoise: Said uses them all to artistic effect... “With Polaroid, the camera and the film play as big a part as you do, and sometimes they know better than you,” says Said.</em>

Read the full article <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/london-city-of-dreams-and-rivers-caught-on-polaroid#full" target="_blank">here</a>