Up My Street. Photo: Dylan Collard (4/5)

The Security Shop, Junction Rd., Archway. © Dylan Collard.

Dylan Collard:

The Security Shop is, as you would expect, a local locksmiths and one that only opens when the owner fancies opening up.  He doesn’t really open in the winter because it’s too cold just to sit in the store …  The store is opposite the Wedding Shop and the Blue Carbuncle both of which feature in the series, but that have now both been forced to close.  Unlike the other shopkeepers on the road, the owner here is hoping for the arrival of a Tesco’s as it will bring in more customers.

Up My Street is Dylan Collard‘s project documenting shops between Kentish Town and Archway. His exhibition The Twelfth Man is currently showing at Exposure Gallery, 22-23 Little Portland Street, London W1. Dylan is represented by the Vue agency.