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Dockyard Doris and the Cat Lady

October 14, 2011

Phil Maxwell: 40 Years On – A Retrospective

Dockyard Doris at the Brick Lane Music Hall. London erly 1990's

Dockyard Doris at the Brick Lane Music Hall. London early 1990's

“It has been my good fortune to record all this life and change continuously for the past thirty years”.

Phil Maxwell – East End Photographer

The cat lady on Brick Lane. London 1980's

The cat lady on Brick Lane. London 1980's

Celebrating 40 years of Phil Maxwell’s work and its archiving for public use by the Bishopsgate Institute, the exhibition takes you on a journey through his youth in Liverpool to his later life in the East End of London.

Housed in two venues – the Bishopsgate Institute and Rough Trade – you can walk between the two buildings and experience the vibrancy of the East End first hand. This is the East End seen through Phil Maxwell’s lens – his backdrop and canvass against which he’s captured sketches of life, documenting an instant in time and the social conditions and history of his community.

Phil Maxwell
40 Years On – A Retrospective
Friday 30 September – Wednesday 30 November 2011

Curated by Hazuan Hashim

Bishopsgate Institute Library
230 Bishopsgate
London EC2m 4QH

Royal Trade East
Dray Walk
Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL

These exhibition Lambda C Type images are printed on paper measuring 59cm x 59cm and mounted on 5mm foam board. As exhibition single prints they are for sale at £200 (with a certificate of authentication signed by the photographer). For purchase please contact Rossana at mercaditoproductions@hotmail.com

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