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Phil Maxwell’s Whitechapel Market

September 18, 2014
by the gentle author

“Whitechapel Market is the heart of the East End,” Contributing Photographer Phil Maxwell assured me recently,” I walk down there every day of my life and it gives me the energy that keeps me going. Stallholders work hard to sell their goods and make a living, and the customers are working hard to keep themselves together, because the food is cheaper there than in supermarket so it is very important resource for those on low incomes. It thasn’t been gentrified like Brick Lane, it’s people struggling to survive and it’s something I need to photograph – it’s the quintessential East End.”

Photographs copyright © Phil Maxwell

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4 Responses leave one →
  1. September 18, 2014

    Good article! Whitechapel Market was my ‘shopping paradise’ when I lived there as a poor student! Wonderful, atmospheric photos! Valerie

  2. September 18, 2014

    *** SCOTLAND WILL DO IT RIGHT! ***

    Thanks and greetings to Phil Maxwell.

    Love & Peace
    ACHIM

  3. September 18, 2014

    Wonderful pictures as always from the Phil Maxwell archive.

  4. Victoria permalink
    September 21, 2014

    Captures the richness in the here and now and the every day. These photos are great and will become ever more fascinating over time, as the market and the world changes!

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