Cyndi’s Shoreditch Documentary: Recording Neighborhoods Before Gentrification Erases Them

A Shoreditch journalist’s racing against time

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat document London’s transformations.

I’m urgently interviewing long-time Shoreditch residents because I know they’ll leave soon. Gentrification works by erosion: displacing person by person until community collapses. My journalism is a memory project. These stories won’t survive otherwise.

The Documentation Imperative

BBC neighborhood coverage documents changes. I document what’s being lost in the process. Both matter. Neither stops gentrification.

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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/