Stills for Films
I suppose I could be described as a visual artist with a bias towards stills photography rather than film. I would disagree with this because I don’t hold to rigid definitions around still and moving film. Furthermore disciplines relating to still photography also apply to film.
Man on Brick Lane, London early 1980's
The photograph (above) has been chosen for our film ‘From Cable Street to Brick Lane’. It accompanies a narrative about how the Lane has changed over the years. Hazuan Hashim edits our films and has developed an eloquent language through his use of stills from my 40+ year old archive. His use of stills may also involve a series of frames of the same subject. Stills are not used with reluctance because of any shortage of moving footage. Stills have become an integral part of our ‘film’ vocabulary.
Artist Bob & Roberta Smith working on a piece of work for our film.
In addition to stills a number of artists are creating pieces specifically for the film. For the work above we will be using film and many stills to accompany the narrative of the artist Bob and Roberta Smith.
Bob relates the acccount his father gave him of the time he fought the Fascists at Cable Street. The film has been in production for four years and examines the social changes that have occured in the East End as well as the ongoing fight against Fascism. Since the film was started the skyline (looking west from the East) has changed quite dramatically. The ‘Shard’ building viewed from Whitechapel (below) will soon be the tallest in London.
The Shard building under construction. London, October 2011
Phil Maxwell: 40 Years On – A Retrospective
“It has been my good fortune to record all this life and change continuously for the past thirty years”.
Phil Maxwell – East End Photographer
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 LondonHoused 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.
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
Prints from the exhibition are available (with a certificate of authentication signed by the photographer). For purchase please contact Rossana at mercaditoproductions@hotmail.com
Pub Talk
Phil Maxwell: 40 Years On – A Retrospective
Conversation in a pub. Lodge Lane, Liverpool 1983
“It has been my good fortune to record all this life and change continuously for the past thirty years”.
Phil Maxwell – East End Photographer
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
This exhibition Lambda C Type image is printed on paper measuring 59cm x 59cm and mounted on 5mm foam board. As an exhibition single prints it are for sale at £200 (with a certificate of authentication signed by the photographer). For purchase please contact Rossana at mercaditoproductions@hotmail.com
Toilet Rolls, Christ Church and Spitalfields Market
Phil Maxwell: 40 Years On – A Retrospective
Toilet Rolls on sale in Cheshire Street. London 1986
“It has been my good fortune to record all this life and change continuously for the past thirty years”.
Phil Maxwell – East End Photographer
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Spitalfields Market. London 1986
- 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
Dockyard Doris and the Cat Lady
Phil Maxwell: 40 Years On – A Retrospective
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
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
Retrospective: Adventure Playground
As a child I remember playing for many hours on building sites. One of these sites sat snugly behind a local pub. There were many signs erected telling parents to keep children off the site; as we were playing on the site for many years before it became a ‘building site’ we felt we had every right to play on it during the construction period.
Four boys in empty terraced house. Toxteth, Liverpool 1980
The boys in this photograph appeared from nowhere and posed for this shot. It was later used for an article on inner city housing and was the poster image for my photomonth exhibition ‘As It Is’ in 1998.
Boy on Bicycle. Liverpool 1979
My childhood memories are festooned with bicycle memories. I lived in a small terraced house with my parents and 5 sisters. My bicycle was my escape into the world. I still recall the sheer joy of free wheeling onto the pavement outside my house, turning left and then right to cross the road for a 20 minute journey to Cardinal Wiseman boys school in ‘Potters Green’. I got my bike as a Christmas present in 1964; it was my pride and joy and vehicle to freedom.
The Liverpool 8 Defence Committee prepares to March, Liverpool 1982
Events leading to the riots in Liverpool 30 years ago were echoed again this year in Brixton. The tactics of the police in Brixton and Liverpool 30 years ago were heavily criticised in the ‘Scarman’ report. The demonstrators (above) were calling for the resignation of the Chief Constable Mr Ken Oxford.
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
An intriguing tranquility for this toddler who blockades the entrance to a shop in Lodge Lane, Liverpool 1982
