PHIL MAXWELL

Whitechapel Dreams

April 19, 2024

Have you ever considered the millions of people who’ve walked down a particular street over the years? This piece attempts to explore that. The woman on Whitechapel Road (photographed in the 1980s) is no longer with us but I can easily imagine her when I walk down Whitechapel market in the East End of London. The image combines day and night and different decades. Imagination has its own special reality that is capable of exploding the concept of time. What is time anyway?

‘Whitechapel Dreams’ – mixed media on paper 2024.

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World Streets (44)

April 16, 2024

Haircut by the river in Sylhet. Bangladesh 1990s.

Afternoon Snooze in Melaka. Malaysia 2019.

Whitechapel Road c.1985 — Having a rest on Whitechapel Road. East London, 1985.

Resting in the sun on Lawrence Road. Liverpool, May 2018.

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World Streets (43)

April 9, 2024

Man on roller skates taking a break. Paris 2004.

Looking through a window in New York, 2015.

Bangladesh c.1992 — Three passengers in a Rickshaw. Bangladesh 1992.

Wearing a hat and a mask on a bike. Hoi An, Vietnam 2016.

Three children. Liverpool 1971 (bishopsgate Institute Collecction). — Three children on the street. Liverpool 1971.

Brick Lane 1999 — Woman sitting on an abandoned chair in Brick Lane. East London 1999.

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World Streets (42)

April 5, 2024

Market stallholder reading a newspaper. Java 2020.

Man reading a newspaper. Bishopsgate Goods Yard c. 2000 — Man reading a newspaper. Bishopsgate Goods Yard. East London 2000.

Market stallholder having a snooze. Java 2020.

Having a snooze in Whitechapel market. East London 1986.

Market stallholder, early evening. Java 2020.

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Hastings Beach

March 25, 2024

Hastings beach can be a thrill in so many different ways. Besides the magnificent sea, beach and fishing vessels it is also the graveyard for a good number of abandoned vehicles used to pull fishing boats onto the beach for repair. If you enjoy a scene that hints at a post apocalypse landscape without any art direction then you’ll enjoy the slowly corroding metal machines on Hastings beach; it’s like an open air museum for heavy duty internal combustion engines of the 20th century. One such machine with its circular geometry, dangling wires and rusting bolts was the inspiration for ‘Machine On Hastings Beach’.