The Bengali Photo Archive
Click here to book THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR for Saturday
These photographs are drawn from the Bengali Photo Archive, a new collection of personal and family images donated by local people alongside the work of photographers who have documented the lives of the Bengali community. An exhibition of pictures from the archive entitled, I Am Who I Am Now opens today at Four Corners in Bethnal Green and runs until 3rd August.
Dance at Spitalfields City Farm, Danièle Lamarche 1990s
Adult learners in Whitechapel, Bev Zalcock 1975
Shanaz with her mother in Bangladesh, Shanaz Siddiqa-Baeg 1981
Brick Lane, David Hoffman 1990
Outside Ali Brothers’ grocery shop, Fashion St, Raju Vaidyanathan 1986
Shanaz at Biscott House and three passport photos collage, Shanaz Siddiqa-Baeg
Notes from the streets, Anthony Lam 1990s
Mela, Brady St, David Hoffman 1987
Portrait of a young girl, Anthony Lam 1980s
Montefiore Mural Painting, Tom Learmouth 1970s
Bangladesh Youth Movement winning the football tournament final, Lloyd Gee 1986
Shaira’s siblings and mother, Shaira Jahan 1982
Anti-racist protest in Tower Hamlets, Syd Shelton 1970s
Studio Portrait, Nita Roy Chowdhury 1983
TUC Unite Against Racism March, Mayar Akash 1990s
Brick Lane Mela, Raju Vaidyanathan 1996
Images courtesy Bengali Photo Archive
You may also like to take a look at
Refreshing and rightly honouring Bangladeshi culture .
10/10
Dance at the Spitalfields farm .. I remember them days I am the boy looking to the right and the boy doing the dance step is Ricky I remember them days baggy jeans t shirt on my foot I am wearing champion trainers they wear really expensive at that time in the 90s I loved my trainers I remember the shop on brick lane were I use to. Get them bought by my father omg Adidas was one of my favourite I would do anything to make my father and mother to buy it every few month another or I would skip school . At that time the music was techno and happy hardcore I still remember the good old days around our town bro k lane and Spitalfields Buxton street and my school . Thomas Buxton. The guy at the back was ray and the little boy fight at the back was Mikhel unfortunately he past away at a very young age via some sort of accident. The old days was fun and dangerous.. I am now 44 and looking back was like the other day .. time dose fly
Lots of love to everyone.. Luthfur miah .. brick lane massive