Endurance & Joy in the East End | The photography of David Hoffman

Curated by The Gentle Author | Designed by Friederike Huber

In the Undercroft | Coming this Autumn

Black and white photograph of several young people smiling while leaning against, inside, and on top of a car

Fieldgate Mansions, Whitechapel, 1978 by David Hoffman

David Hoffman’s bold, humane photography records a lost decade, speaking vividly to our own times. Living in Whitechapel through the Seventies, David documented homelessness, racism and the rise of protest in startlingly intimate and compassionate pictures to compose a vital photographic testimony of resilience.

This exhibition coincides with the publication of David Hoffman’s monograph by Spitalfields Life Books, Endurance & Joy in the East End 1971–1987.