Bob Mazzer

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. 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

Group exhibitions

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

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