PHIL MAXWELL

Favourite Photographs

March 10, 2016

Here are some of my favourite photographs from recent blogs.

Newham 1980s

Central London 2003

Whitechapel Road c.1983

Whitechapel Market c.1982

Brick Lane c.1983

Brick Lane 2003

Brick Lane Launderette c.1983

Brick Lane 2013

Brick Lane c.1984

Walking Down Brick Lane

March 9, 2016

Brick Lane 2013

Brick Lane 2012

Brick Lane 2013

Brick Lane 2012

Brick Lane 2015

Brick Lane 2012

International Women’s Day 2016

March 8, 2016

Today is International Women’s day and this year we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. These photographs illustrate women the world over. I hope they challenge the idea that progress is largely brought about by men. We still have a long way to go before injustice based purely on a persons sex is eradicated. Each year new photographs are added to this International Women’s day blog.

Bangladesh 1992

Liverpool 2016

Women in Liverpool 8, 1981

Whitechapel Market 2002

Photomontage 2013

Workers on strike, East London c.1988

Liverpool 2016

Women in launderette, Liverpool 1980

Bangladesh 2008

Women against Racism, London 1992

Liverpool 2016

Protester at anti nuclear rally. Brighton sea front early 1980s

East London 2010

Liverpool 2016

Trade Union banner at the TUC anti Racist Demo. Spitalfields 1994

Woman preparing herbs & spices in a village outside Dhaka, 1992

Pat, stallholder at the Bethnal Green Road market, 1992

Liverpool 2016

Brick Lane c.1984

Belle protesting with others outside a BNP election meeting, John Scurr School 1986

Belle is addressing the anti racist demonstrators standing outside the school in front of her.

Andrea addressing the BNP who were inside the school, 1986

The police ensured that the BNP were allowed into the school hall. School children had produced their own exhibition on the life and story of Anne Frank. This was damaged by BNP members.

Protesters against estate sales march down Cambridge Heath Road, 1984

A dance performance at the Spitalfields Community Festival. Spitalfields market, 1997

The London based American composer Lola Perrin, 2009

Lola works closely with Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell and has composed the music for their latest silent film Going East .

Portrait of a centenerian woman, Sylhet, Bangladesh 1992

Brick Lane c.1983

Women protestors outside the former Bethnal Green Town Hall, 1984

Whitechapel Road c.1983

Thirty Years Of Protest

March 7, 2016

I’ve always photographed protest. I believe it is important that struggles for justice are recorded for posterity. We are diminished if we forget the struggles of the past. Here are some examples of protest taken over the last thirty years.