R.A. Gibson’s photography studio in Clapton captured the changing faces of Hackney since the 1950s until it closed in 2013.
This short film shares some of the stories behind the photographs which featured in the exhibition, ‘Strike a Pose: Portraits from a Hackney Photo’ at Hackney Museum (October 2014 to January 2015)
The unique exhibition showed the many faces of Hackney during the 1970s. It included wedding parties outside Hackney Town Hall from African, Asian and Caribbean families; studio portraits of nurses from the Caribbean in their uniforms; family portraits at home; university graduations and the fashion and styles of the decade.
The studio collection of photographer RA Gibson belongs to Hackney Archives (hackney.gov.uk/archives).
One of the best ( 11.16 secs ) i have had in a long time
I remember having my picture taken there around 1988. The guy that took the pictures had a moustache and I recall that he was about late twenties to early thirties. Now I am puzzled because if the studio opened in the fifties, the guy who took the pictures could not have been RA Gibson. He should have been a lot older than late twenties/early thirites guy who did take the pictures. Did he have an assistant with a moustache around the same time. If so, who was this man?
l went there in 1985.just before I left hackney to live in the unitedโstats the staff there were really wonderful and kind and really did make every one feel comfortable and relax.thaks to you goblins.๐๐๐๐