"Mike Abrahams is a British documentary photographer and photojournalist who is based in London. He is best known for his photographs documenting the lives of ordinary people, particularly his work in Northern Ireland and on Christian pilgrimage around the world"..
Abrahams : "I started taking photographs in my teens after failing to get into medical school. I worked for a while for the ambulance service, transporting elderly and disabled people to and from day centres. It took me all over the city"..
"At the time, I didn’t realise how good the pictures I took were, but my tutor Maggie Murray impressed on me that they contained an awful lot of information."..
theguardian.com
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"This photograph was taken during a return trip to Liverpool in July 1981, the month of the Toxteth riots. It was after the first wave of the rioting and just before the second; it was also the week Charles and Diana were getting married.."..
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"Racism had long been a problem in Toxteth. In 1919, attacks on Black-occupied homes had led to the murder of one resident, Charles Wotten, who was chased to the docks by a group of angry white men, thrown into the water and pelted with bricks and stones"..
"62 years later, the riots were fuelled by a catastrophic economic crisis, a combative prime minister in Margaret Thatcher, and an institutionally racist police force. It was the arrest of a young Black man, Leroy Cooper, that finally lit the fuse."..
britishculturearchive.co.uk
britishculturearchive.co.uk
"what I’ve always thought more interesting is not the fact that people throw stones, but why they’re thrown. That’s why I chose to photograph in Granby Street, which I knew well. Along with the surrounding streets, it was part of Liverpool 8"..
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"Mike Abrahams’ CV
Born: 1952, Johannesburg
Trained: BA Photographic Arts, Polytechnic Central London
Influences: “Cartier-Bresson, Marc Riboud, Leonard Freed, Danny Lyon, Larry Burrows, W Eugene Smith, Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin”"
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Born: 1952, Johannesburg
Trained: BA Photographic Arts, Polytechnic Central London
Influences: “Cartier-Bresson, Marc Riboud, Leonard Freed, Danny Lyon, Larry Burrows, W Eugene Smith, Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin”"
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"Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947..
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Now owned by Nicole Junkermann🍿🎶🤡
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