Amanda Eatwell Photography

Strong sunlight hits a house with metal sheets protecting the windows. It has been emptied ahead of demolition, and autumn leaves fill the foreground.

Part of Amanda’s photographic exploration into the housing crisis, and how empty properties are used.

Amanda Eatwell has been photographing the lesnes estate, thamesmead as it is being physically degraded ahead of it’s planned demolition. This liminal state is full of tension and uncertainty.

Amanda has chosen to create this project in harsh daylight with rich colour film. This look adds to the tense atmosphere around the Lesnes Estate as more and more houses are boarded up and gardens discarded.

Tropical bushes grow despite the lesnes estate’s slow demise. In the background a tower block has been daubed with writing from above the twelfth floor: it reads, Homes 4 All.

This image is from the Lesnes Estate, Thamesmead where there are various people living as squatters in houses that have been decanted. You can see some of the homemade banners adorned on the buildings that send messages to anyone who wishes to read them.

Amanda has captured evocative scenes from Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead, where many homes have been emptied ahead of future demolition. She held a work in progress exhibition with these images in October 2025.

This is a scene observed and photographed by London-based documentary photographer, Amanda Eatwell. She has been working on the lesnes estate in thamesmead as she wants to encourage dialogue around the subject of empty properties and how they are used, unused and misused.

This cute depiction of a house drawn in chalk on a paving slab may indicate something more…Amanda Eatwell has been documenting the slow demise of the estate in her observational style. This image forms part of Dwellings, which is her current project around empty properties and their usage.