Photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg tells us how she made High-Rise - A Modern Project, a photograph of a London tower block at night that took on another life as the cover of one of the most influential British albums of the 21st century.
High-Rise - A Modern Project focusses on an illuminated tower block, symbol of British post-war council housing and the ambition for affordable, modern living this architecture encapsulated. I made the series in the mid 1990s, when the urban change that has since engulfed East London was nascent. My art student friends ran a gallery in the opposite tower block on the 16th floor. We named the gallery Plummet and that is where the work was first shown in 1995 and bought by the local clergyman on the estate, Father Len.