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Radical Community Photography in Hackney in the 1980s

In the 1980s, Hackney was one of the most deprived parts of the UK, ignored by Margeret Thatcher’s new vision of Britain.

But at Dalston’s Rio – London’s oldest community-run cinema – the Tape/Slide Newsreel Group was giving unemployed local young people a voice. It taught photography and sound-recording skills, and championed an alternative perspective on Hackney life.

In 2016, thousands of slides were found in a filing cabinet in the Rio’s basement, a legacy of this groundbreaking project.

They document vibrant communities, street scenes, markets and social events. They also report on the social problems of a corner of London left behind, and on local activism against racism, police brutality, deportations, AIDS, the miners’ strike and nuclear weapons.

This book collects images and oral history. It is a story of community, resistance and hope, told by the people who lived it.

BOOK AVAILABLE HERE

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London - England (by Teseum)

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just learned about a building in london that is so poorly designed it becomes a death ray that melts cars and creates a downdraft effect with wind so powerful that it knocks full grown adults to the ground

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imagine being knocked over by a gust of wind from this ugly ass building and then being cooked TO DEATH by the sun reflection like what a way to go

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London’s very own British Polyhedron

move the monarchy to that spot and tell them its sun therapy?architecture london

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Kings Cross Road / Leeke Street, Pentonville, London, 1986 - Peter Marshall.

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Charles Hewitt. Night Time Coffee. London. 1952

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i learned that Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed London’s sewers in the 1860’s, said ‘Well, we’re only going to do this once and there’s always the unforeseen’ and doubled the pipe diameter. If he had not done this, it would have overflowed in the 1960’s (its still in use today) (x)