Mike Seaborne

Press Release from The East End Archive at The Cass For immediate release 1970s–80s East End: previously unpublished images from leading documentary photographers New book box-set from The East End Archive at The Cass includes previously unpublished workby renowned photographers Diane Bush, Brian Griffin, Tom Hunter and Mike Seaborne. Explores the huge social and economic changes in the area, including the vanished industrial landscape and the deregulation of the financial markets.

Now home to financial heavyweights and epic skyscapers, the Isle of Dogs was once the beating heart of industrial East London. In the early ’80s Mike Seaborne began documenting the area’s social fabric, taking his camera around the streets and inside remaining working factories and businesses. These photographs, taken between 1982 and 1987, show the island on the cusp of huge development.