Until Tuesday 30 May / Mon-Fri, 9.00am to 7.00pm – Saturdays 10.30am to 4.30pm / Brady Arts Centre 192-196 Hanbury Street, E1 5HU
An exhibition of photographs by Paul Trevor celebrating East London’s Bengali activists of 1978.
This exhibition reveals the dramatic events which were sparked by the racist murder of Altab Ali, a 24-year-old Bengali leather garments worker, and pays tribute to the activists who mobilised around the rallying cry of justice that followed.
Local East End photographer Paul Trevor documented how members of the local Bengali community endured racial abuse as a constant factor of everyday life, and the moment at which they mobilised against racist violence and institutional police racism. The exhibition brings together 75 of Trevor’s photographs for the first time, alongside oral history recordings by original activists.
