Barbara Chandler's biggest show to date - Love London - was in Habitat's flagship Regent Street Store in September 2008, in a historic circular picture gallery which dates back to 1887.
Barbara's pictures (38 in this show) span 20 years, and are shot on a variety of film, from grainy black- and-white to clear joyous colour. These are Barbara's own personal take on London sights and scenes, some seemingly familiar, others sharply unexpected, but all observed with an idiosyncratic eye. Shoppers, buskers, children, guards, commuters, revellers, market traders and simply passers-by - these  have become photo tableaux at various times.

* Scroll down for more London images. For a fuller portfolio, click on Love London by Barbara Chandler under EXHIBITIONS,  right, with a separate section for new work. To see more images of East London, including ongoing work, click on The Hidden Heart of Hackney, also under EXHIBITIONS, right.

Give us a kiss
No pictures have been posed - except for the extrovert lovers kissing by night against a ritzy backdrop of  Tower Bridge lights. Janet and Conlon (now married) asked Barbara to take their picture on their digital camera, while she was walking along the South Bank taking photographs one evening earlier this summer. This she did. Then Barbara said she would take "a proper picture" on her camera, and asked the couple to "give us a kiss." Says Barbara: "When the picture was developed, I realised it was pure magic, and ideal for my show."

So this exuberant photograph has become the key to the show's title, Love London: but all the images are presented with huge affection. Favourite landmarks are given a new twist, sometimes caught in the mist, or sharply exposed in the sun, or almost casually blurred as backdrops.

London's landmarks
Spot Eros,  the Wheel, Big Ben, St Paul's, and more. Areas explored range from Regent Street and Soho to the City, Canary Wharf and Bermondsey Street. And poignantly some sights are already gone for ever - like a majestic row of Routemaster buses in a bus garage in Hackney.

Pictures for sale
Prints were produced for Habitat by specialists The Art Group. They were mounted and framed in three sizes, ready to take away. The exhibition opened to the public on 3 September 2008, and celebrated in particular last year's Regent Street Festival on 7 September, when the theme was A Great British Experience. Many images in the exhibition are available direct from this website as handmade photo cards. You can also order prints: please e mail enquiries to barbara@barbarachandler.co.uk