Download or read book East London Photo Stories written by Rachel Segal Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark their fifth anniversary Hoxton Mini Press are publishing a compilation book that will feature photography from the bestselling book series 'East London Photo Stories.' Appearing alongside new text and a map of East London showing where the projects were taken, each chapter of selected images captures a unique aspect of the area's colourful character: from Hackney's eccentric inhabitants and tranquil waterways to famous flower markets, 1980s Dalston and wild nightlife in Shoreditch. Featuring work by Dougie Wallace, Zed Nelson, Jenny Lewis, David Campany & Polly Braden, David George and many more.
Download or read book Sunday Football written by Chris Baker and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Sunday a small army of amateur footballers descend on Hackney Marshes. Known as the 'spiritual home of amateur football', the marshes consist of some 80 pitches where more than 50 matches are played each week from September until April. Photographer Chris Baker, an amateur footballer himself, has spent the past three seasons documenting this Sunday ritual.
Download or read book East London Swimmers written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Swimmers is the second in the series of East London Photo Stories by Hoxton Mini Press. Each book in the series is about Hackney and its surroundings - one of the capital's most rich and diverse areas - and features the work of both emerging and established photographers. Madeleine Waller is a local East London Photographer whose work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery. The book, which includes quotes taken from interviews with the swimmers, gives a touching and humorous insight into the world of those who escape the city to swim in conditions.
Download or read book East End written by John Claridge and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures in Lea Valley written by David Campany and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The River Lea runs from Hertfordshire down to the Thames in East London. Once a busy commercial waterway, it is now a nature reserve and leisure area. From the grand site of the 2012 Olympic Games it passes industrial estates, sports centres, new build homes and council estates. Escape from the city; the reinvention of social spaces; the attraction of water; the meeting of different cultures; the persistence of nature. Adventures in Lea Valley collects a decade's worth of photographs from Davaid Campany and Polly Braden, telling the story of this changing land.
Download or read book A Portrait of Hackney written by Zed Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in the East London Photo Stories series by Hoxton Mini Press. Each title in this series will be the same size and numbered, forming a collectable set. This is a photo documentary project that looks at the changing face of East London. Hackney, though crime-ridden, poor and dilapidated, is also now London's trendiest neighbourhood, and was home to the 2012 Olympics. Zed Nelson, a renowned photojournalist who both resides and grew up in the area, looks at some of the bizarre, often painful, contradictions caused by this rapid gentrification.
Download or read book East London Photo Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2021* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After the Flower Market written by Johanna Neurath and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Columbia Road is the home to London's most iconic flower market. Come closing time, Johanna Neurath turns her lens to what is left behind - the discarded flowers, the used packaging, the buckets of water - reminding us that there is poetry to be found in the places we often ignoreEast London photographer Johanna Neurath has ventured down Hackney's Columbia Road nearly every Sunday for the past ten years to visit its flower market. Rather than depicting the obvious prettiness of people and their flowers Neurath turns her attention to the color and pattern left behind as the market clears out, focusing on strangely beautiful displays in gutters, hazy reflections in windows and the abstract forms created by cigarette butts and polystyrene cups strewn across the road. This book fuses still life and street photography to celebrate the beauty and chaos of one of East London's most famous markets.
Download or read book East London Photo Stories Box Set written by Hoxton Mini Press and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This slipcase, made by hand in East London using GF Smith paper and gold foiling, houses the following titles: I've Lived In East London for 86 1/2 Years (97809576998012), East London Swimmers (9780957699823), A Portrait of Hackney (9780957699830), Shoreditch Wild Life (9780957699847), One Day Young (9780957699885), Drivers In The 1980s (9780957699892), Columbia Road (9781910566015) and Lost In The City (9781910566039)
Download or read book I ve Lived in East London for 86 1 2 Years written by Martin Usborne and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've Lived in East London for 86 1/2 years is the story of Joseph Markovitch, a vulnerable old man with a great sense of humour who has lived in Hoxton for his entire life. He left only once, to go to the seaside with his mother. Joe loves Nicolas Cage films, has five sugars in his tea, and he has quite bad catarrh. He is an original 'Eastender'. Dealing with quintessential subject matter such as childhood, art, work, relationships and religion in a playful but touching way, Joseph unknowingly provides a thought-provoking commentary on the state of the modern world.
Download or read book Lost in the City written by Nicholas Sack and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Sack's black-and-white photographs of office workers capture solitary individuals and set them against the imposing architecture of modern London. The work is beautiful but also unnerving and reminds us of the alienation that can be felt in the heart of a city as well as obliquely commenting on the moral uncertainty of some of the office workers in the City. The book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Ian Sinclair.
Download or read book East London Up Close written by MIMI. MOLLICA and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This playful photo series by local photographer Mimi Mollica thrusts the viewer straight into the inspiring, frustrating, wild and living streets of east London. Abstract, colourful snapshots of people, fabrics, architecture, wildlife and everyday objects together tell a story of a vibrant, ever-changing community. Mollica's (sometimes extreme) close-ups are full of warmth and spontaneity; making us yearn for a time when close proximity to strangers was inherent in our day-to-day lives.
Download or read book Shoreditch Wild Life written by Dougie Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild, brash, outrageous and laced with humour, Dougie Wallace's photos capture the extreme variety of street life in one of London's most iconic areas: Shoreditch. Old people, young revellers, street vendors, those from many ethnic backgrounds and at all times of day - no one is immune to Wallace's sharp eye. They are captured in vivid colour in over 50 images in this beautiful book.
Download or read book Hackney by Night written by David George and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David George's photographs of Hackney by night reveal urban landscapes of eerie stillness but also unexpected beauty. Here is the London that we miss when we sleep, that is more beautiful than in our dreams. The images are accompanied by a short story by Karen Falconer that takes the reader on a parallel journey into the night of someone's memory.
Download or read book Vintage Glamour in London s East End written by Boris Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning collection of glamorous photographs by legendary Boris Bennett reflects a desire by the subjects to be transported from their East London surroundings. Vintage Glamour In London's East End is the first monograph of this prolific photographer's work, and will be of particular interest to London's Jewish community, as they were often Bennett's subjects. However, interest in this remarkable book will also come from fashion buffs; the costume and glamour used in Bennett's photography is richly detailed and sumptuously lit.
Download or read book One Hundred Years Portraits from Ages 1 100 written by Jenny Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If all of life can be seen in a grain of sand then it can certainly be found in the melting pot of Hackney. Renowned photographer Jenny Lewis has taken a hundred portraits of her community, covering every age from 1-100 in chronological order. The series captures the worries, hopes, fears, passions, joys, regrets and much inbetween of those who, just like us, are travelling on this strange journey from birth to death.
Download or read book The People of East London written by Adam Dant and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People of East London comprises 50 colour illustrations by Adam Dant that celebrate and gently mock the array of characters you may possibly meet in East London. From Graffiti Tourists, Street Food Evangelists, Flower Market Shoppers to Aggressive Estate Agents, App Millionaires and Bicycle Thieves, Dant has all the stereotypes covered. The book can serve as a visual travel guide for those wishing to explore London’s east end or as comic relief for those who face these ‘types’ on a daily basis.
