Revisiting Whiffin's East End

Chris Dorley-Brown

Chris Dorley-Brown works in collaboration with artists, filmmakers, curators, groups and individuals in a variety of cultural contexts, primarily outside the art gallery. He has been building up a photographic archive of life in his home borough of Hackney for over ten years. As part of the ‘Whiffin’s East End’exhibition, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives invited Chris to revisit the work of East End photographer William Whiffin (1878-1957), exploring the sites and subjects depicted in the exhibition and using his own contemporary photographic approach to capture and create a new archive of Whiffin’s East End.

Part of Photomonth: East London Photography Festival.