Bob Mazzer

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Bob Mazzer (born 1948) is a British street photographer, living in St Leonards-on-Sea. [1] His photographs of people on the London Underground were collected in the book Underground (2014). Mazzer has also photographed people in Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea. He had a retrospective exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, in 2022. [1]

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Life and work

Mazzer was born in Whitechapel, London. [1] [2] He studied graphic design at Hornsey College of Art in London. [1]

Mazzer photographed people on the London Underground in the 1970s and 1980s as he commuted to his job working as a projectionist at a porn cinema, and later. 40 years of these photographs were published in the book Underground (2014). [2] [3] [4]

He has since moved to St Leonards-on-Sea. [1] His book Bob Mazzer (2020), a restospective of work from the 1960s to the present day, includes "Underground images; hippie life in Wales; life in France; expanding life in the USA and local life in Hastings" and St Leonards. [5] [6] In Sussex (2022) includes photographs again from Hastings and St Leonards, as well as the surrounding countryside.

Publications

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Films

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