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Street Portraiture is my passion. This often neglected genre comes with endless opportunities to interact with people from all walks of life, ethnicity and backgrounds. Much of my photography happens in and around the Brick Lane area of the East End of London. It's a place that holds a special place in my affections, several branches of my family have passed this way in the last 150 years. Self-taught, I have firm belief in the transformative potential of conversations within photography. I can’t express it better than the noted Oxford scholar, Theodore Zeldin, who expressed it thus: “Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts, they transform them. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards and it involves being willing to emerge a slightly different person”. 2023 Feature article Macfilos web site: https://www.macfilos.com/2023/11/27/conservations/Please click on this box to view my article about my approach to street portraiture on the Macfilos web sitePlease click on this box to view my 2022 British Photography Awards - short-listed Portraits category - fingers crossed! Details HERE 2022 Second Solo Exhibition 'Conversations' held on Brick Lane - May 2022 2022 Black + White Photography Magazine full feature - Issue 262 2021 British Photography Awards - short-listed Portraits category. 2020 Tower Hamlets - Black History Month - online exhibition:- 2019 Solo Exhibition 'Brick Lane Life' held on Brick Lane - October 2019 2019 Black & White Photography Magazine October edition 2019. My portrait of Samy Chabani was one of the 50 winners declared for the 'Portrait of Humanity' photo competition chosen from over 28,000 entries. 2018. Another of my portraits of Abdel Tavares made the final selection of the 'Portrait of Britain' photo competition. Rear Cover photo British Journal of Photography - October 2018 2016. Tower Hamlets selected my portrait of Abdel for their 2016 BHM poster campaign and brochure cover. 2016. My portrait of Abdel Tavares was one of the 57 photographs exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the prestigeous Taylor Wessing Portrait PrizeTaylor Wessing Portrait Prize. Used for the exhibition catalogue cover, postcards and an extensive poster campaign on the London Underground network, my image has been seen by tens of thousands of Londoners and visitors to the capital. The story of Abdel may be seen HERE. 2015. My photos of Dillan, the Singer Man were chosen by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to promote their Black History Month (BHM) programme. This resulted in an extensive street poster campaign. The story can be seen on my Blog page |
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