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Posts Tagged ‘Hoxton Mini Press’

Market Day, Paul Trevor, book review: ‘Real-world theatre’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 11 November 2024 at 12:43

The photographer’s exploration of East London’s street markets is ‘impressive’

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After the Olympics, Tony Mak, book review: ‘Photographs that catch the fractured mood of this social cusp’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 10 October 2022 at 09:14

Tony Mak’s images show ‘how unharmonious profit-maximising urban design can be’

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The Council House, Jack Young, book review: ‘A celebration of the beauty of London estates’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 27 June 2022 at 13:31

Young’s work is a ‘salutary reminder of the qualitative variety and splendour of so much of our existing stock’

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An English Summer, Chanel Irvine, book review: ‘Photos laced with nostalgic detail’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 24 June 2022 at 17:31

Irvine sees in British summers a ‘lyrical and faintly elegiac quality’

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One Hundred Years, Jenny Lewis, book review: ‘Life going by in a richly textured community’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 3 June 2021 at 10:50

The photographer’s portraits of unique local characters cover a century of Hackney’s ‘passion and fortitude’

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In Your Face, Paul Trevor, book review: ‘Up close and personal’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 6 October 2020 at 12:46

Naturalistic photographs alternating between Brick Lane and the City from the late ‘70s to the early ‘90s, this collection leaves the viewer ‘engrossed in detail’

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An Opinionated Guide to Vegan London, Hoxton Mini Press: ‘Highly informative digest of animal-free eating’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 17 December 2019 at 15:04

The volume features mouth-watering photos, and the section on east London is ‘by far the bulkiest’

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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane, Paul Trevor: ‘Camaraderie of the East End during a period of strife’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 19 November 2019 at 12:41

One of the leading photographers of local street life takes us back to Spitalfields in the 70s and 80s with this new collection

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The East End in Colour, 1980-1990, Tim Brown, book review: ‘A rich glimpse of a time gone by’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 28 May 2019 at 17:56

Former tube driver Tim Brown’s photographs are a ‘thought-provoking reminder of just how fast East London has changed’

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An Opinionated Guide to East London, Hoxton Mini Press, book review: ‘Good browsing material’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 8 March 2019 at 17:41

The second edition of this guide to east London is a ‘handy source of ideas’

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Wonky books: Hoxton Mini Press turn printing error into free giveaway for ‘most depressing day of the year’

By Andrew Barnes | Wednesday 10 January 2018 at 17:01
Written from scratch: the damaged books that Hoxton Mini Press are giving away next week. Photograph: Hoxton Mini Press

1,500 copies of their photobook ‘I’ve Lived in East London for 86 ½ Years’ turned up with marks on the back, so the East London publisher is bringing joy to ‘Blue Monday’ by distributing them in the capital for free

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Dalston in the 80s by Andrew Holligan, book review: “bursting with culture and steeped in challenge”

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 April 2017 at 11:29
“Two older lads on the razz”: detail from Dalston in the 80s. Photograph: Andrew Holligan.

This collection of black and white photography nonetheless depicts “life in its many colours” with a personal, diary-like feel

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Adventures in the Lea Valley: stirring images of strange and surreal beauty in East London

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 12 January 2017 at 10:26

Photography duo Polly Braden and David Campany have documented East London’s patchwork wilderness in ‘disconcerting times’

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Along the Hackney Canal – book review: ‘A refined eye for the sublime’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 September 2016 at 16:10
Along the Hackney Canal

Freya Najade’s stunning collection of photographs elevates a seemingly narrow subject into the realm of the sublime

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Lost in the City: photographs of the Square Mile inject life into icy scenes

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 June 2016 at 10:42

Photographer Nicholas Sack has been capturing moments of beauty in the harsh surroundings of London’s financial district for over 30 years

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Lost in the City: photographs of London's office workers

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 27 January 2016 at 10:00

Photographer Nicholas Sack captures a stark world of alienation and testosterone in Lost in the City

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Lost in the City: photographs of London’s office workers

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 27 January 2016 at 10:00

Photographer Nicholas Sack captures a stark world of alienation and testosterone in Lost in the City

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Jenny Lewis: the photographer behind One Day Young

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 June 2015 at 15:23

New born babies and their mums were photographed together for a new book

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Fifty people of East London who are true to type

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 February 2014 at 14:56

Well-observed guide to East Londoners is packed with satire and observational humour

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I’ve lived in East London for 86 1/2 Years – interview with author Martin Usborne

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 January 2014 at 16:46

Hoxton Mini Press releases the condensed life story of 86-year-old East Londoner Joseph Markovitch told in text and images

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