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An innovative photographic exhibition was held this month at The Gallery on Edward's Lane.
Robert Hind's 'Stoke Newington and Beyond' focused on the diversity of Stoke Newington's historical characters and explored whether that diversity and vibrancy is still reflected in the characters who live and work here today.
Thus the Reverend Richard Price was represented by Cal Courtney, Minister at Price's Newington Green Church, Champagne Charlie by actor and writer Peter John, Mary Wollstonecraft by women's mental health adviser Shirley McNicholas, Daniel Defoe by N16 editor and publisher Rab MacWilliam and Marc Bolan by musician and pinball expert Pinball Geoff (see picture).
The exhibition was accompanied by black and white landscape photographs which were taken early in the morning and concentrate on the Victorian Stoke Newington backdrop against which we all live our lives. These pictures work to romanticise Stoke Newington and add a sense of pride to the community living within that backdrop.
Robert is a local photographer whose portrait shop, Planet Stills on Church Street, specializes in stylish and natural portraits for the family, memento and publicity photography, with all the photographs taken digitally. One of the reasons he set up Planet Stills was because of his interest in working with and taking pictures of people in his immediate community.
Edinburgh-born Robert studied for a degree in photography at the London College of Printing. After a 4-month internship working with ABC TV in New York, he came back to London and became a stills photographer on TV and film sets. His subjects included a variety of stars, such as Boy George, Elton John, Kate Winslett and Helen Mirren, among others. More recently, he worked in advertising. Robert took this issue's cover picture of Eric Murphy and the Xmas issue's image of Rowan Lambourne-Gibbs. N16 is so impressed by the quality of these photographs, and all the others which we have seen from his portfolio, that we have asked Robert to become a regular photographic contributor to the magazine, specialising in cover pictures.
Contact Robert at Planet Stills, 37 Church Street, N16, 07976
442161, info@planetstills.co.uk
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Meetings by appointment.
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