Looking With Images

Untitled photograph, photographer unknown, November 11th 1932, P18742, Collection 410 (The Chinese Community in Tower Hamlets), Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, London, UK.

A short essay about one of my favourite photographs, a methodological and conceptual touchstone for Archives of Intimacy taken on the streets of Limehouse, in east London, sometime during the early 1930s. Originally published October 2023.

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