David Hoffman’s Endurance & Joy at the Museum of the Home

David Hoffman’s photography exhibition Endurance & Joy will be on display at the Museum of the Home in Hoxton for six months starting in October.

This exhibition is a record of Hoffman’s time squatting in Fieldgate Mansions in Whitechapel during the Seventies showing the drama of the life within the community of artists, homeless people and Bengali families.

At this time the community was under constant threat of eviction with plans to demolish the building. The imagery shows the struggles people faced counterpointed by the observation of children at play.

The Victorian Fieldgate Mansions still stands today, housing many families in Whitechapel.

Hoffman, who now lives in Bow, has a career spanning over four decades with notable coverage of the Brixton riots and protests in the 1980s.

Spitalfield’s well-loved anonymous scribe, The Gentle Author curated this exhibition and successfully crowd-funded just under £11,000 to put this exhibit on at the Museum of the Home in Hoxton.

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