British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s.
Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found it. His pictures gives us a feeling to postwar Britain, when the country’s youth played on derelict streets. His many pictures of children playing on Southam Street in North Kensington, west London between 1956 and 1961 were among the last of their kind before slums were demolished and most of this street made way for Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower in the 1960s.
Southam Street, North Kensington, London, 1959
Bermondsey, south east London, 1956
Children at Nigel Henderson’s, 1954
An exhibition of Roger Mayne’s work is now on at London’s Courtauld Gallery. You can buy the accompanying book, Roger Mayne: Youth, here.
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