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]
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
- Underground. Spitalfields Life, 2014. ISBN 978-0957656932.[7][8]
- Bob Mazzer. London: Unicorn, 2020. With a foreword by Will Self. ISBN 978-1912690602.[5]
- In Sussex. London: Unicorn, 2022. ISBN 9781914414381. With a foreword by Eamonn McCabe. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.
- Tube. Hastings: Silverhill, 2022.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- Bob Mazzer: Underground, Howard Griffin Gallery, London, 2014[9][10][11]
- Bob Mazzer in Camera: a Retrospective, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, 20 January 2022 – 17 April 2022[1]
Group exhibitions
- New Work in Britain: Aspects of Photography in Britain Today, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1981. With Ricardo Gómez Pérez, Martin Parr, and others.[12]