Bob Mazzer Explained

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 currently has a retrospective exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, until 17 April 2022.^[1]

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

• Underground. Spitalfields Life, 2014. .^{[7] [8]}
• Bob Mazzer. London: Unicorn, 2020. With a foreword by Will Self. .^[5]
• In Sussex. London: Unicorn, 2022. . 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]

Films

• Bob Mazzer: Underground & Other Pictures (FullBleed, 2015) – documentary directed by Richard Butchins^[13]

External links

• Mazzer's profile at Howard Griffin Gallery

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2022-01-27. A bearded dragon in St Leonards-on-Sea … Bob Mazzer's best photograph. 26 January 2022. The Guardian.
2. Web site: 2022-01-27. Behind the Scenes: We interview Bob Mazzer about his photographs taken on the Tube. www.itsnicethat.com.
3. Web site: 2022-01-27. Pictures: Take A Tube Back To The Underground Of The 70s & 80s. 10 January 2014. HuffPost UK.
4. Web site: 2022-01-27. Beautifully intimate images from London's underground. 15 May 2014. Dazed.
5. Web site: Laura. Hampson. Gareth. Richman. 2022-01-27. 24 of Bob Mazzer's best images from the 1960s to today. 18 January 2020. www.standard.co.uk.
6. Web site: 2022-01-27. New book of artist's street photography captures everyday life in Sussex. The Argus.
7. Web site: 2022-01-27. Bob Mazzer's tube photography – London picture galleries. Time Out London.
8. Web site: Irene. Chapple. 2022-01-27. Humor and humanity: Four decades of London's underground life. CNN.
9. News: Tom. Lamont. 2022-01-27. Going underground – in pictures. The Guardian. 27 July 2013. 0261-3077.
10. Web site: 2022-01-27. Bob Mazzer "Underground" @ Howard Griffin Gallery, London. www.juxtapoz.com.
11. Web site: 2022-01-27. Bob Mazzer Opens His First Exhibition of 1980s London Underground Photography. Complex.
12. Web site: The Photographers' Gallery: Exhibition History, 1971 – Present. . . 28 January 2022 . PDF.
13. Web site: 2022-01-27. BJP Presents a Fullbleed Film: Bob Mazzer's Underground & Other Pictures. British Journal of Photography.