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Two boys on a street in Harlesden early 1990s
- Credit: Roy Mehta
A Brent-born photographer is seeking people he took pictures of 30 years ago for an exhibition in Willesden next year.
Roy Mehta walked the borough s streets from 1989 to 1993 with his huge camera and was invited to take pictures of Afro-Caribbean and Irish communities engaged in seemingly simple activities at home, in the street and at church.
A church service in Harlesden in 1990
- Credit: Roy Mehta
In 2019 the 52-year-old received a 2020 Culture Fund grant to develop his unique and evocative collection to showcase his art as part of the London Borough of Culture Brent 2020.
By Elizabeth Breiner on April 7, 2015
Hazel and Rudy
Clemmie and Imogen
After giving birth to her second child, while still reveling in the pride-laden afterglow, editorial photographer Jenny Lewis began to wonder why the only representations she had seen of this post-natal period in a woman’s life were images of corseted and flat-bellied women in magazines or heartwarming Hallmark card references, all either idealized or completely cheesy. Why was no one documenting those first transcendent moments of motherhood, when “the rug of life is just being ripped out from underneath you and suddenly you’re just like a god, a Greek god, a statue”? Childbirth wasn’t something to just get through and quickly cover up; that incomparable confrontation with one’s own creative powers, that profound redefinition of self in relation to a new other those were things worth celebrating. And so
Jenny Lewis new book lenses local Hackney residents aged zero to 100 itsnicethat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from itsnicethat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Three-year-old Vivi was one of the youngest people photographed for the book.
- Credit: Jenny Lewis
An award-winning local photographer has released a new book of portraits of people in Hackney’s community.
Published on April 15, One Hundred Years, by Jenny Lewis, is a heart-warming compilation of one hundred portrait photographs in chronological order, from birth to one hundred years of age.
The book has been published by local indie publisher Hoxton Mini Press and includes an introductory essay by Lucy Davies.
Each portrait photograph is paired with quotes from interviews that Jenny conducted with the subject to capture a unique snapshot of their life and personality.