A beautifully-produced hefty paperback of more than two hundred dramatic black & white photographs of Brick Lane in the East End of London in chronological sequence, telling the story of volatile social change on one of Britain`s most celebrated streets from 1982 until the present day. Phil Maxwell is the photographer of Brick Lane. Over the last thirty years, no-one has taken more pictures there than he & his astonishing body of work stands unparalleled in the canon of street photography, both in its range & in the quality of human observation that informs these eloquent images.