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A few seconds on Brick Lane

April 22, 2011

Photographed on the corner of Brick Lane and Bacon street in 1985 this market trader is taking a cigarette break and Looking across the street in the distance.

Man on a corner of Brick Lane

Man on a corner of Brick Lane, 1985

What I find fascinating about these few seconds is that the market trader appears oblivious to the people walking past and sharing his pavement space.

Man on a corner of Brick Lane, 1985

Man on a corner of Brick Lane, 1985

Man on a corner of Brick Lane

Man on a corner of Brick Lane, 1985

Man on a corner of Brick Lane, 1985

Man on a corner of Brick Lane, 1985

Strangely the moments captured suggest an intimacy between the subjects.

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