David Hoffman Speaks
Photographer David Hoffman will be in conversation with Gaynor Tutani at the Museum of the Home on Wednesday 20th November at 6:30pm, discussing his new book and exhibition ENDURANCE & JOY IN THE EAST END.
This is the only event David is doing in person, so if you want to hear him speak please book now because it is likely to sell out quickly.
From squatting in Whitechapel’s’s Fieldgate Mansions, to becoming a celebrated protest photographer, David Hoffman shares his journey of documenting hidden histories of homelessness, racism, and the beauty and grittiness of the East End.
This in conversation with Museum of the Home’s Gaynor Tutani is centred around the Museum’s current exhibition, Endurance & Joy in the East End: The Photography of David Hoffman and the publication of his monograph by Spitalfields Life Books, Endurance & Joy in the East End 1971–1987.
The talk will explore Hoffman’s life’s work and his commitment to capturing the realities of inequality and injustice in Britain, revealing harsh truths with remarkable clarity. His work is recognised for its contemporary relevance amid the cost of living and housing crisis, racial tension, and social division such as those seen in the August 2024 riots in the UK.
Museum of the Home is committed to discussing ideas of home and belonging. The evening will celebrate David Hoffman, his art and photographs, whose allure and pain remain with us in the present day. Attendees will be inspired by his works and reminded of the importance of figures such as Hoffman, those whose life purpose has been to uncover and document the uncomfortable, while promoting the joy, hope and perseverance of humanity that refuses to be extinguished.
Cover price is £35 but you can buy it from Spitalfields Life for £30
CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED COPY OF ENDURANCE & JOY
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Perhaps it can be considered to also provide an Online Live Streaming option for such future events. Whilst there is every likelihood attending the event in person may well ‘sell out’ there are many interested like myself unable to attend in person so willing to pay for a live stream of the event itself – just a thought is all.
The wonder of Spitalfields Life is hearing of places I’ve not heard of before. So it is with the Museum of the Home conveniently located nearby Hoxton train station.
Whilst I may never get to actually visit in person, the wonders of it’s website opens a whole new world of visual immersive joy especially given it has taken the step to provide us an online only experience of visiting Rooms Through Time whilst sat at our computers, laptops, pads, or phone to explore these which which are presented exclusively online moving back through time – A Loft-style apartment 1998, A Front Room in 1976, A Flat in 1937, A Drawing Room in 1915, A Parlour in 1870.
Such a joy to find these gems moving with the times supplementing ‘footfall’ with ‘global online access’, it’s how most all museums of excellence should be presenting their wares.
In that vein I remain forever hopeful that the Endurance & Joy in the East End: The photography of David Hoffman exhibition will too one day be an online offering where for a small fee we get to view it remotely wherever we may be sat in the world.