Comments on: The Old Ladies Of Whitechapel

By: sandra

sandra — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 06:25:13 +0000

Wonderful monochrome street photography of older women. All so expressive!

By: David Davies

David Davies — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:08:33 +0000

These old dears each have a story to tell. A very moving collection.

By: Denise Bryant

Denise Bryant — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:32:12 +0000

Hello Gentle Author

George Eliot knew these women well and wrote of them in loving truthfulness in earlier times
thus :

” for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts ;
and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been ,
is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life ,
and rest in unvisited tombs.”

There is no vanity or hypocrisy in the faces of the working class …

By: Achim

Achim — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:51:29 +0000

Lovely pictures of Lovely Old Ladies!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:34:52 +0000

Some older ladies live in their world of long ago, coming out, to do the shopping and socialize. Many live active lives well into their nineties as volunteers (men also). These ladies were young once most served in WW.2 on the London front line during the blitzkrieg, in shadow factory’s and most occupations men did. Releasing men and remembering some women including our Queen, served in the armed forces. So woman then were the mainstay of our society. Thanks to GA, Phil and Fixers United a job well done. John

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 07:59:22 +0000

What a great bunch!
More love for old ladies!
xx

By: Alison Ashfield

Alison Ashfield — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:41:36 +0000

Ah…on their shoulders, metaphorically, we stand.
Life-etched faces
Grandma-gentle hand.

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:17:11 +0000

Great photos. Only thing is a couple of them don’t look like old ladles at all. I think pic 33 or thereabouts, the rather handsome black or mix raced women, looks to be in her 50s.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:12:34 +0000

I love Phil’s photos of people, and the wealth of expressions he captures; each photo tells its own story. Valerie

By: ROBERT GREEN

ROBERT GREEN — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:18:57 +0000

Some familiar face’s hear, the lady pushing the shopping trolley in the 6th photo is a woman I used to see every Sunday in Sclater St market until relatively recent years when she suddenly disappear’d, photo 15 is Mrs Power, her family used to run a stall in Sclater St selling pet food, bird seed mostly right up until the late 1980s, her family member Albert Power was born in Sclater St in the late 1890s they also had a shop there in one of the old weavers cottages (now demolished) in the next photo, 16 the woman on the left is someone I know very well, she still comes down the market but not so often as she use to, there are quiet a few others hear that I know but I won’t bore on (to much) what I like about these photos is there very natural, hardly any of the people in them are posing and many are obviously completely unaware their even being photographed at all which makes them all the more important because they capture a snapshot of people innocently going about their business and just doing what they do which then gives the viewer the opportunity to gain an incite into what their daily lives are really like and that’s good photography, good luck with the film show at Rich Mix, pity it’s on a Sunday because I’ll be stuck round the corner in the next street while it’s going on ! !