Comments on: Moyra Peralta’s Portraits

By: David Tovey

David Tovey — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:09:30 +0000

I was very lucky to interview Moyra a couple of weeks before she passed away for a project we’re doing about St Johns in Waterloo and the ball ring which will be exhibited in February coming highly recommend coming along. We’re still trying to find people who lived in the Ball if anybody would like to come forward, give me a shout. The interview is being turned into a podcast as we speak and will be fascinating to listen to as she talks fondly about some of the guys she photographed and got to call friends. I was honoured and extremely humbled by her giving us so much time to record the interview even though she knew she was only a few days away from passing away she was and will always be a phenomenal artist Photographer human being God rest her soul

By: Dave Howes

Dave Howes — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:27:08 +0000

It was really good to see a photo of Tiny. I used to help run the Crypt Folk Club at St Maritns In The Fields through the 1970s until the early 80s and he was usually there on a Sunday evening. My two young daughters developed a special relationship with ‘uncle Tiny’. The sight of Tiny playing hide and seek with two pre-school girls is something you don’t easily forget!
A lovely gentle soul.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:58:59 +0000

My late father grew up in Belfast. He used to tell me as a young man between the wars he saw a lot of homeless alcoholics, often men who had been very damaged by serving in The Great War. He taught me never to judge homeless people as they have their reasons for being in that unfortunate position. It’s one of the reasons I donate to the Salvation Army, both at home in Scotland and where I live in Switzerland, because they do a lot for the homeless and lonely. In my adopted city in Switzerland they also work with the young girls who stand on the street in the red light zone, by coaxing them away from prostitution and working with another organisation that helps get these young girls away from their pimps.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:44:01 +0000

Very briefly. There will always be some who wish to wander and feel restricted any other way – like the circus wanderer here – but 99% of cases are not like this

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:40:42 +0000

Wonderfully evocative photos, which bring out the humanity of people who have fallen all the way to the bottom. I will not forget Billy and his broken heart. I hope Moyra’s work will be curated and available for years to come. She has left a superb legacy.

We need to do so much more about homelessness. Addiction, mental heath issues, domestic discord/violence and sheer bloody misfortune indivually and collectively conspire to create this situation. And still local authorites struggle to manage it. Street homelessness seems to be something to ‘clear away’ rather than solve.

For some it’s an easy fix, for others it will be difficult but with more affordable housing and properly funded schemes we could do away with homelessness.

Interesting too, that the street homeless are not the only homeless. Many more sofa surf or live temporarily with friends/relatives or exist in bed and breakfast accommodation – many families live like this.

The photo of the woman in the flowery dress, allows for so many possible narratives of how she arrived at that point. All will be tragic.

Everyone deserves a roof over their heads.

By: Patricia Cleveland-Peck

Patricia Cleveland-Peck — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:47:02 +0000

I find these photos incredibly moving. They are a lasting legacy from Moyra

By: achim

achim — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:39:05 +0000

We remember all these wonderful photos of Moyra Peralta. Now that the artist is no longer with us, they suddenly take on a whole new meaning. I look at them as if I’m viewing them for the very first time…

On 14 June 2014, exactly ten years ago, I received her book “Nearly Invisible” from London, which she dedicated to me. Dear Moyra Peralta (1936-2024), thank you for your wonderful work. May you rest in peace.

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Andy Strowman

Andy Strowman — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:31:29 +0000

Would anyone or more than anyone like to help me so we get Moyra a post humous award like an OBE .
I tried to fill it in but I need letters of support from others .
I have her last address .
Please consider helping me and if anyone who is technical wants to try and do it instead of me then I will be glad to help them .
She is a deserving case .

I can be contacted andy.strowman1@gmail.com

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:20:26 +0000

She deserved an OBE