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Hey guys.. sorry for the delay in replying... let's see if I can cover everything :D
The photos were shot on a canon 1ds with a 17-40mm f4 lens (on a tripod- must have for night shots!)
Finding locations is about 30% knowing people, 10% luck and 60% going out and actively looking for things. It normally takes a lot of exploring to find great locations, and while you do that you meet people who have done cool stuff, and you end up having contacts that can show you around to some top spots :D
That said, I've always wanted to do battersea properly - it's amazing, and truley a work of art. It has huge 1920-style art-deco murals lining one section of the plant - marble and wooden staircases, carved french-style folding doors, and the control-rooms are immaculate, and resplendant in 1920 style furnishing.. it's mind blowing!
As for the drain, it's the river westbourne - running under hyde park in london. Aside from being a huge system of almost all redbrick, it also has a lot of sewer overflow into it, so some sections are nothing short of intensely turdy (replete with toilet paper islands, rats, the works etc)
If you're local in London, you can see one section of the drain pass over the tube line in Sloane Square station!
The particular picture was of a sewer overflow.
As for stories of weird and wonderful - the thousands of stranded tampons in the westbourne drain were slightly unsettling.. I've never really had much trouble with security or police - generally you just evade or don't get seen, or walk straight up to them and tell them what's going on - but a few months ago on the roof of a building in the city a chromer stumbled up and was walking on rusted tin over a 4-story fall and being a general dick; squatters also have a tendancy to get angry too!
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