Becarevic Exhibition - Curator's Talk: Street Incidents | UOW Library
Channel: UOW Library
Date: 2018-07-02

Street incidents: 21 photographs with descriptive letter press/photographs by John Thomson

Photography was still a new and fascinating technology in the 1870s when Scottish photographer John Thomson was roaming the globe. 

After travelling through Southeast Asia and China documenting the culture and customs, Thomson returned to Britain.

His portraits of London’s squalor were unlike anything seen before and he arguably became the first “street photographer” with this compilation of photographs capturing the poverty and privation of social conditions in the East End.

Presented by UOW Archives Manager, Grant White.