Remembering “Cardboard City”: Revisiting Waterloo’s forgotten homeless community

A fading memory of the homeless lands outside Waterloo station is remembered in a new exhibition that tells the story of the South Bank’s  “cardboard city”.Although, as the exhibition explains, Cardboard City was rarely made of cardboard – it was a media invention from an often hostile tabloid press that saw homelessness less as a problem to solve than a moral crusade against decadent and lazy people.
The exhibition is mainly photographic, a record of life in the con