Renowned photographer Charlie Phillips takes a look at the ‘Salt and Silver: Early Photography’ exhibition at Tate Britain.
Charlie Phillips was born in Jamaica and moved to London in the 1950s. He grew up in Notting Hill and is widely recognised as being the first photographer to document the Caribbean and West Indian immigrant communities that settled there in the 1960s.
His work from this era is an important record of the overlooked black and working-class community, their day-to-day life and neighbourhood.
In this episode of TateShots, Charlie, also known as ‘Smokey Joe’, returns to the streets of Notting Hill by way of Tate Britain’s ‘Salt and Silver’ photography exhibition, a new display which features salted paper prints, recognised as one of the earliest forms of photography.
As Charlie reflects on the people and places he chronicled throughout his career, he finds much in common with Salt and Silver’s pioneering photographers and the work they created over 160 years ago.
See the Salt and Silver exhibition: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/salt-and-silver-early-photography-1840-1860
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