David Hoffman’s East End
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.
“I took these photographs thirty to forty years ago – they are all from the East End, mostly around Whitechapel and Spitalfields.
I was born in the East End, but my parents’ upward mobility whisked me out to suburbia and it was only in my twenties that I gravitated back to my roots. I was immediately entranced by the atmosphere of joy and dilapidation. It was the spirit of the people you see in these pictures that lifted my spirits and showed me the direction which my career has followed ever since.” David Hoffman
Photographs copyright © David Hoffman
You may also like to take a look at
David Hoffman at Fieldgate Mansions
David Hoffman at Smithfield Market
Cover price is £35 but you can buy it from Spitalfields Life for £30
CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED COPY OF ENDURANCE & JOY
These photos encapsulate some of the best memories I have of growing up in Whitechapel and walking to the surrounding areas .
Moving, beautiful, humane.
Much more optimism about in these lovely photos than the last batch you shew. Can’t beat an old biddy showing her knickers off in the street!
Heart warming stuff.