Between 1989 and 2000, photographer John Claridge occupied a building in Rivington St where he set up his home and his studio. While pursuing commercial and documentary photogra…
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One shilling by Roy Gardner
Paul Gardner, the current incumbent and fourth generation in Spitalfields oldest family business, Gardners’ Market Sundriesmen in Commercial St, w…
I invited Contributing Photographer John Claridge along to the 67th Annual Grimaldi Service at Holy Trinity Church in Dalston last weekend to take a set of clown portraits, as a co…
“Coming from the East End, I used to go to sleep at night listening to the sound of the ships and my dad was a sailor who told me tales of his travels – so I wanted to see the world.” Photogr…
Somehow, it came as no surprise to discover that he had been here – because I always thought of Charlie Chaplin as the one who carried a certain culture of the penniless, the ragged an…
Tony Hall loved shops as much as he loved pubs, as you can see from this magnificent array of little shops in the East End that he captured for eternity, selected from the thousand or s…
Since 1981, when he moved to London from Liverpool, Phil Maxwell has been taking pictures daily on Brick Lane, creating an unparalleled canon of photography that records the chan…
Sandys Row from the north
After seeing the work of photographer C.A.Mathew published on Spitalfields Life, Adam Tuck was inspired to revisit the locations of the pictures taken a…
Come and see James Brown’s Gardners’ Market Sundriesmen print at The Artists of Spitalfields Life opening at Ben Pentreath Ltd on Wednesday 7th November.
This is illustrator & pr…
Over a year ago, Tif Hunter began taking portraits of those who worked selling food in Maltby St near his studio in Bermondsey, where he went each Saturday to buy his provisions. Hav…
Celebrating the birthday today of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654), it is my pleasure to publish this portrait of the famous herbalist of Spitalfields by Patricia Cleveland-Peck…
Lost Control Again (Hanbury St)
A year has passed since I came across the work of painter Marc Gooderham and here you see a selection of the new pictures he has created since then – of s…
