Comments on: David Hoffman At St Botolph’s https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 29 May 2018 06:00:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Judy Sumray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-1210686 Tue, 29 May 2018 06:00:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-1210686 So touched and moved ….inadequate,word…..by this record…..my husband, Godfrey, was a pharmacist in st botolph street, having been ‘demolished’ from 21 Aldgate, EC3…..he helped the shelter with boxes of soap andin other ways….Godfrey died in 1978
I’m now 94, give or take 3weeks….still alert,wobbly legs, in a v. congenial plus, carehome, mary Feilding Guild in Highgate…

If it is at ALL POSSIBLE would love to have some contact with someone…..he did have letter(s) at the time.

Your daily pieces are an impossible to describe joy….have your last book…..thank you again….if anyone is able to contact me, that would be so special…thank you again

Judy Sumray

]]> By: Jean northern https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-1070187 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:41:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-1070187 Thank god for good people it shows we can’t judge people who drink and take drugs who knows what they have been through thank god I have a roof over my head a warm bed and plenty of food.

]]> By: Homer Sykes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-227633 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:19:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-227633 Some great images.

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-222844 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:51:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-222844 More magnificent images from David!

]]> By: Deborah Fyrth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-221857 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:50:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-221857 Such moving images, especially the guy with the wee puppy. David Hoffman gives value and recognition to people who’ve been marginalised by society.

]]> By: Barbara https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-221561 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:35:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-221561 I remember the man in the first photograph who is having his hair cut. I lived in Whitechapel 1957 – 1965 and I remember seeing him selling boxes of matches along the Whitechapel Road. Quite sad to think that so many years later he was still homeless in Spitalfields. I have also seen photos of the same man taken by Phil Maxwell in the eighties . So many years of wandering.

]]> By: Gary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-221557 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:26:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-221557 I have known David Hoffman for years but you have opened a window in his life that I knew nothing off, fantastic.
David since those early days has developed into a very skilled and successful photographer with a very interesting and eventful life.
Gary Arber

]]> By: Shaun Peters https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-221497 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:15:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-221497 I commented the last time David Hoffman’s work was shown here. To have achieved this kind of effect, it is obvious that he has spent time and been accepted by those subjects who have allowed him into their midst and their lives at a very difficult time.

Wonderful work. Thank you again for showing.

]]> By: Tommy F https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-221496 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:10:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-221496 fantastic photographs., thanks again G.A.

]]> By: Vicky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/10/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs/#comment-221488 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:39:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=102720#comment-221488 Extremely moving, you cannot fail to be touched by these images.

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