People like Will Storr

Bradley Garrett (born c. 1981) is an American social and cultural geographer at the University of Sydney in Australia and a writer for The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom. He describes his research interests as being at the intersections of cultural geography, archaeology and visual methods and writes that his research is about "finding the hidden in the world". He is the author of Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City, an ethnographic account of the activities of the London Consolidation Crew (LCC), a group of urban explorers Garrett calls "place hackers".

In a 2013 interview with Will Storr for the Daily Telegraph, Garrett described "place hacking", otherwise known as urban exploration, as a way of "...seeing the city like it’th [sic] a puzzle and putting the pieces of that puzzle together, connecting thingth [sic]". Garrett went on to explain that "...the more we feel like there are thingth [sic] we can’t do and places we can’t see, the more urban exploration hath [sic] [a] capacity to give people hope". In addition to his work in human geography, Garrett has published academic research papers in archaeology, history, ethics, criminology, and visual methods. It is his photography connected to the "place hackers" project which has received the most attention, both in academia and from the wider public.