Strike a Pose: Portraits from a Hackney Photo Studio | Hackney Museum

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).