5AM LONDON

april

Depart: 05:00
Sunrise: 05:35
Return: 06:15

may

Depart: 05:05
Sunrise: 04:50
Return: 06:15

"I'm one of the few people left on the bus as we arrive at Lambeth Palace."

june

Depart: 04:50
Sunrise: 04:44
Return: 06:20

"I wake to the radio. It's the story of a racist bomb attack on an Alabama church."

july

Depart: 04:55
Sunrise: 05:31
Return: 06:30

"With my eyes so heavy, I can't focus on my task. I question what it is I am seeking in these early hours."

august

Depart: 04:55
Sunrise: 06:04
Return: 06:35

"I want to see glass reflected in the early morning sunshine, so take the bus to the Horniman Museum."

september

Depart: 05:00
Sunrise: 06:57
Return: 06:02

"I slam the front door, which is a mistake because a lamp is switched on in the upstairs flat. Who is awake at 5am?"

october

Depart: 04:55
Sunrise: 06:49
Return: 06:10

"One thing I notice is the strange smells. For each aroma, I try to find its exact association in my mind."

november

Depart: 04:41
Sunrise: 07:36
Return: 06:40

"5am is mine now. I know its tricks and inhabitants. People are smudged-make up drunk, or travelling with battered suitcases."

december

Depart: 04.30
Sunrise: 08.06
Return: 07.28

"With plans to travel the furthest yet from home, I'm on a packed bus with six or seven people joining at each stop."

january

Depart: 04.19
Sunrise: 08.20
Return: 07.40

"'Where can love flee to and how can it end?' reads a scrape of graffiti."

february

Depart: 04.20
Sunrise: 07.08
Return: 06.45

"At each bus stop, the doors wheeze open, Oyster cards beep and people swarm towards the back seats or swing up the stairs."

march

Depart: 04.09
Sunrise: 06.38
Return: 07.56

"For my last trick, I stab a knife into my A-Z to decide the location."