PHIL MAXWELL

Posters On The Wall

August 2, 2016

I’m fascinated by posters that are plastered up in Cities around the world. Not only are they a contemporary ‘popular cultural image’, once applied to a wall they start to develop a new life of their own; weather and the hands of people who object to them shift posters into a new visual realm. Here are a few that have caught my attention.

Brick Lane 2002

Cinema posters on a wall in Chittagong 2009

Brick Lane 2002

Posters on closed shop front, Nantes, France 2011

Brick Lane 2002

Posters, Liverpool 1979

Brick Lane 2002

Bethnal Green Road Over The Years (2)

August 1, 2016

Bethnal Green Road 2016

Passengers boarding bus on Bethnal Green Road, 1983

Bethnal Green Road 2016

Junction of Brick Lane & Bethnal Green Road 1988

Bethnal Green Road 2016

Man on Bethnal Green Road, c.1989

Bethnal Green Road 2016

Bethnal Green Road c.1988

Bethnal Green Road 2016

Bethnal Green Road c.1988

Bethnal Green Road 2016

Shoreditch – Playground Of The Rich

July 31, 2016

Shoreditch has changed so much over the last 10 years. Gentrification is pushing people out and making it impossible for the average person to live there.

There is now virtually no social housing left. If you want to buy a three bedroom flat it will cost you £3,150,000! London is becoming a playground for the rich where ordinary people are forced to live in overcrowded conditions on incomes they can barely survive on.