Peter Marlow: Influenced by the night photography of Bill Brandt

‘London at Night’ by Peter Marlow

In 1981, The Photographers’ Gallery commissioned Magnum photographer Peter Marlow to produce an exhibition on the theme of London at Night, which was subsequently exhibited at the gallery in 1983. Influenced by the night photography of Bill Brandt (1904-1983), Marlow chose to document the area around Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs in East London, an area in which the photographer was then living, and which was undergoing an extraordinary transition from once traditional docks, to what is now the Canary Wharf development, home to many of the capitals financial institutions and luxury apartment blocks.

[via wayneford]