A photograph of Hackney in the 1970s by Neil Martinson, who has been documenting the area for almost 50 years Neil Martinson was just 17 years old and still at school when he began taking photographs of Hackney, east London, where he was born and raised. "It was 1971. I bought myself a Zenit-E, a Russian-made camera, which was the only one I could afford, and I started to explore the streets, the shops, the factories, the bomb sites," he recalls. "I was a nervous kid. Being behind the lens made ...
A photograph of Hackney in the 1970s by Neil Martinson, who has been documenting the area for almost 50 years Neil Martinson was just 17 years old and still at school when he began taking photographs of Hackney, east London, where he was born and raised. "It was 1971. I bought myself a Zenit-E, a Russian-made camera, which was the only one I could afford, and I started to explore the streets, the shops, the factories, the bomb sites," he recalls. "I was a nervous kid. Being behind the lens made ...
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