Neil Martinson, Photographer
February 5, 2018
Neil Martinson documented the working life of Hackney and the East End throughout the seventies and eighties. These photographs are selected from his retrospective ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE at Stour Space, Hackney Wick until 22nd February and monograph published by Cafe Royal Books. Neil was born and brought up in Hackney, where he started taking street scenes and became a founder member of the Hackney Flashers photography collective.
Cheshire St
Steve Manning
Ridley Rd Market
Brian Simons
Bethnal Green Rd
Tony Kyriakides
Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs
Brian Simons
Stoke Newington
Ridley Rd Market
Lew Lessen
Abney Park Cemetery
Photographs copyright © Neil Martinson
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They give a real feel of the period. And it’s nice to see so many old Spitalfieldslife acquaintances popping up.
Apparently, Brian Ferry recently stated that ‘no one’ – as in, one assumes, hip and trendy – lived in the East End in the early 70s. He obviously had not met Ken Jacobs!
I remember “No.6″…
Coffin nails!
Wonderful images! I love the one of the teacher in the playground ringing the school bell. I bet he was great fun.
Is Brian Simons still teaching? He would be retired I guess ,if not I bet that Afro is long gone. . And lew the barber showing the bloke the results of his new hair cut was a hoot!
Greetings from Boston,
GA, thanks for such another real life, gritty view of ordinary lives of folks in the East End three decades ago. Imagine seeing someone smoking today at his work station amid that myriad of fabrics!
Some things have changed for the better…
…the lady florist making the dog floral tribute with a cigarette in her mouth – wonderful!!
Turn the clock back! Sublime images of working class heroes of the nineteen seventies. Everyone smoking, almost certainly everyone passed on by now. If only they could see what their London and Country had become. Perhaps not. The streets belonged to us then.
Amazing images, bringing a past era to life with such efficacy!
Grand photographs!
Love & Peace
ACHIM