Comments on: Beggars, Newspaper Sellers & Bubblegum Machines

By: Francesca Jobson

Francesca Jobson — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:26:55 +0000

I love this photographer,I was born and raised on Caledonian Road 61 years ago,l left London 27 years ago to raise my children in the country,both now live in ‘trendy Dalston”.They look at me as thought I’m mad when I discribe my childhood in London,how run down the city was ,how as a child i played on bomb ruins which were still evident in the 70’s.Thes pictures capture the era.Every area had character’s similar to the cat lady who just coexisted with the rest of the population .

By: sarah ainslie

sarah ainslie — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:59:03 +0000

I love Phil Maxwell’s photographs you really feel the intensity of the moment, the photographs don’t have the sense of something grabbed but closely observed, thank you Phil would be lovely to see an exhibition and book of your work.

By: Herry Lawford

Herry Lawford — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:05:46 +0000

Thanks so much for directing us back to Phil Maxwell’s wonderful record of the East End

By: melbournegirl

melbournegirl — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:42:56 +0000

A point of great insight and beauty, gentle author, that those whose lives are seen as marginal, can also be central agents in a living city. Thank you for these words and images.