ORLANDO GILI / GUARDIAN LABS

The Guardian Labs commissioned Orlando to photograph local businesses in Hackney Wick last year.

His subjects included an actor turned gin distiller magnate at East London Liquor Company, a Lyonnesse and Parisian couple who established Repot, a plant shop, and a pair who founded Moo Canoes after meeting on the Thames during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee flotilla. The brief was to highlight three local businesses that make East London an interesting place to live, all situated within walking distance of Coppermaker Square