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After hours on Caledonian Road

What a north London cage tells you about a city, the people who keep it open, and the season that just turned.

/ London / Photo essay / The N7 ballers

The court doesn’t open. The court is opened — by whoever shows up first with a key, a brush and a phone speaker. That’s the deal on Caledonian Road, and it’s been the deal since long before anyone called this a scene.

A night, in three chapters

A photo essay shot across four nights between February and April. Names are kept light on purpose; this isn’t a feature on individuals. It’s a feature on a place, and the people who choose to keep returning to it.

“We don’t run the court. The court runs us.”

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