Notting Hill Carnival photographs: Charlie Phillips, Muswell Hill

Revealed: 4:50 PM August 23, 2022

An exhibition celebrating Notting Hill life by way of the lens of photo-portraitist Charlie Phillips goes on present simply after the annual carnival.

Muswell Hill Gallery’s “post-carnival retrospective” of pictures from the veteran photographer’s archive runs from September 1-6. The 77-year-old photographer might be readily available on the personal view to speak about his 10 pictures, which doc London’s African-Caribbean neighborhood at a time of giant cultural shifts, and the beginning of carnival.

Charlie Phillips with digicam – Credit score: Charlie Phillips Archive

Born in Jamaica in 1944, Phillips grew up watching the ships come and go in Kingston harbour at a time of main immigration to Britain. Aged 11, he joined his mother and father in Notting Hill the place he lived by way of poor housing, race riots, and an environment the place the neighborhood had been afraid to stroll the streets.

Whereas working in his dad or mum’s Portobello Highway restaurant, he was given a Kodak Brownie by an American serviceman and taught himself by way of trial and error, growing his prints within the household lavatory. A service provider sailor, he travelled broadly within the sixties capturing scholar protests in Paris and Rome, celebrities comparable to Muhammad Ali and Omar Sharif, city migrant staff in Milan, in addition to poor housing, political activism, music and the migrant expertise again house.

Muhammad Ali – Credit score: Charlie Phillips Archive

Phillips, who was awarded an OBE on this yr’s New 12 months Honours for providers to images and the humanities, printed Notting Hill within the Sixties, a set of iconic pictures of the Windrush technology which seize the richness and complexity of the neighborhood. His work has been exhibited at Tate Britain and the Museum of London, and his 1967 {photograph} Notting Hill Couple is in the V&A’s assortment.

Lady on Scooter – Credit score: Charlie Phillips Archive

In 2020, artist and movie director Steve McQueen requested that Phillips take his portrait when he guest-edited the Observer.

The Charlie Phillips Archive Exhibition runs September 1-6 at Muswell Hill Gallery, 21, Excessive Avenue, Hornsey N8, and contains the possibility to purchase signed prints, books, T shirts and baggage. The gallery was launched in 2021 by fantastic arts graduate Georgia Robinson to supply month-to-month exhibitions for up and coming artists. Go to www.instagram.com/muswellhillgallery

Dressed Up – Credit score: Charlie Phillips Archive