New London street photography film

Simon King's feature-length documentary Everything Happens All The Time brings together 27 photographers working across street photography, documentary, and photojournalism in London.

Free to watch online now

Released September 17, the 1 hour 45 minute documentary is free to watch online and captures the London street photography community at a specific moment in time.

Street photography looks weird from outside

Spending days walking around looking at strangers, light, and fleeting moments can seem obsessive or intrusive, yet that's exactly where the genre's value lies.

Most people have never seen candid street photos

While street photographers worry about originality, most people have never seriously considered a candid photograph made on the street, making the work genuinely niche.

Recording London as it really is

These photographers capture what living in London feels like through people, not through red buses and landmarks. They document protests, communities, loneliness, humor, and ordinary interactions.

Street work leads to professional careers

Street photography is sometimes dismissed as hobby work, yet the instincts developed there translate directly into serious documentary and photojournalistic careers with major agencies.

Learning to recognize what matters

Street photography teaches anticipation, human behavior, and composition, but most importantly, it teaches photographers to recognize when something happening in front of them actually matters.

Today's ordinary becomes tomorrow's history

Clothes that look normal now will become period fashion, buildings will change, and the way people hold phones or travel will look unmistakably historical in decades.

These photos document the 2020s

Photographers are casually creating images that future generations will use to understand what this period actually looked like from street level, making them unintentional historical documents.

“they have documented London in the 2020s”

A community documenting itself

King captured a community simultaneously documenting London and itself, complete with insecurity, obsession, missed shots, friendships, and the suspicion that it might all be slightly ridiculous.

Photographs may outlive achievements

While some photographers may publish books or shoot for Getty, their photographs could ultimately outlive those achievements, becoming a visual record of London as it really was.