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'Women at Work, East End Portraits 1992-2025 brings together the many working women I have encountered and photographed since coming to the East End of London.

My fascination with photography began whilst studying at Derby Art College in the late 1960s. It was a male-dominated course with only three of us young women, sharing a darkroom. For us, this was a time not only for exploring alternative ways of photography but also for seeking different approaches to telling our stories.

I came to London in the late 1970s, and I remember walking through the streets of the East End and finding myself beside the Thames at Wapping. I fell in love with the area and moved into a studio that was part of a working warehouse at New Crane Wharf. I lived and worked there for seven years alongside an eclectic group of around seventy artists and filmmakers until our eviction in 1985 to make way for the redevelopment of the Docklands.

Every Sunday, I wandered through the streets to take pictures in Brick Lane and I still feel the excitement of walking through the chaos, energy and humanity of the market, where people laid out their personal possessions on the pavements to sell and be recycled into a new life. It was a theatre of the streets. And I was captivated, not only by this community but also by the urban landscape it inhabited.

In 1992, I was commissioned by Hackney Museum to make portraits documenting the working lives of women in the borough. It was fascinating to search for a diverse range of occupations to photograph.

By this time, I had moved my studio to Shoreditch and I was shooting mainly with black and white film. I would process my film and print contact sheets in my darkroom before selecting the images, so captivating as they slowly emerged in the developer.

Alongside photographing the East End, I was also working for fringe theatre companies documenting rehearsals as well as capturing the action of performance. Photographing in the theatre informed the way I worked outside in the streets. Becoming embedded in and committing time to projects has always been important for me, allowing my relationships with people and places to grow. In the mid-1990s, I was drawn to exploring the night-time economy of Smithfield Market in the City of London. It was a dramatic, subterranean and mysterious world where glowing lights illuminated rows of hanging carcasses reminiscent of paintings by Rembrandt or Soutine. There was a camaraderie there between the traders who were mainly men and the few female cashiers. As dawn rose over the city, these night workers returned home to sleep and the daytime working world began.

In 2010, I became a contributing photographer to Spitalfields Life, which tells the stories of the people, the culture and the history of the East End. Sometimes we would visit a particular person and other times we would explore the streets, making surveys of launderettes, chicken shops, barbers and other vital parts of our community.

We found that everyone's life experience was distinct, always interesting, sometimes dramatic and sometimes joyous, whilst at other times it was the simplicity of an individual's life that was inspiring. At the same time there were many housing campaigns, the threat of eviction is an all too familiar story in the East End, and photographs and stories became an important tool in raising awareness against injustice.

It has been both an honour and an adventure to meet and photograph women from across numerous community, many of whom have found new ways of working within the structure of society, setting up businesses and organisations, individually and collectively. Some have created spaces for music, dance and the arts. Others have become political activists fighting for better conditions and equal rights. All are vital contributors to the East End cultural landscape. And it is the spirit of these women who have shared their lives with dignity, integrity and strength that have enriched and inspired me through all these years.

This book is a tribute to these women.'

SARAH AINSLIE

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Sarah Ainslie will be giving an illustrated lecture, showing her pictures and telling the stories behind her WOMEN AT WORK project at this year's Bloomsbury Jamboree on Saturday 14th November at the Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Sq, London WC1N 3AT.

 

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We invite you to join us at the book launch and exhibition opening for WOMEN AT WORK on Thursday 19th November 6:30-9pm at Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Road, London, E2 OQN.

 

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Republicans just want election fraud. That's it.

In second place, it's a double-winning comment that also took second place over on the funny side. Once again it's an anonymous comment, this time about Ofcom ramping up the Online Safety Act after all the evidence that it isn't working:

In other words, the Online Safety Act has one, and only one, genuinely good provision: it requires Ofcom to report the data showing that it doesn't work.

For editor's choice on the insightful side, we start out with Stephen T. Stone and one more comment about Ofcom, this time answering the question about why they're doing all this:

Simplest answer is often the best: They want to use this as a pretext for an Internet censorship endeavour in the vein of China's Great Firewall.

Next, it's Rocky with another comment about the 28 voter fraud arrests:

Which also means if they can only find 28 erroneously registered people out 23 million it is proof that the system works because no system is perfect and a error rate of 1.22e-6 is so incredibly low it is statistically insignificant. I expected it to be much much higher, because as you say, voters screw up and voters are people and people screw up daily.

I'm just waiting for the idiots to show up ranting about "see, I told you!" which means they think they are perfect and have never ever in their life made a mistake which is utter bullshit. But that's they way of the fools, confidently ignorant of their own shortcomings.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is David with a reply to another comment aptly describing the rate of voter fraud as "one percent of one percent of one percent":

That's already three percent, enough to swing an election.

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We've already had the second-place double-winner above, so we'll move on to editor's choice, starting out with one more anonymous comment about the fraud arrests. This time, it's about the government's little trick of lumping together "illegal registration or voting" as a single stat:

Hundreds of millions of Americans have committed murder or drank water.

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And they're like "OH MY GOD WHERE DID ALL THESE TUMORS COME FROM?"

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Opinion: Choosing The Wrong Side - MotoGP's Qatar PR Disaster

With Sepang done and dusted, MotoGP is heading to Qatar. Not quite all of MotoGP, however. On Sunday afternoon after the Sepang race, Yamaha issued a statement saying that they would be following Yamaha corporate travel policy which restricts travel to Qatar, and as a consequence they would not be racing at the Lusail International Circuit.

Yamaha's refusal to travel to Qatar highlights just what a disaster the Qatar round is turning into for the MotoGP Group and Liberty Media. In their attempt to ensure that the Qatar round goes ahead and avoid a financial disaster, they are causing more damage than they were trying to avoid.

There are many good reasons why MotoGP is trying to placate Qatar. The round is about much more than just a MotoGP race. MotoGP Group has found a partner in the QMMF, the Qatari motorsports federation, and in the Lusail International Circuit. The Chairman of the QMMF, Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Latif Al Mannai, is also one of the 45 members of Qatar's Shura Council, the board that advises the absolute monarch of Qatar, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

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You don't need a large garden to create a haven for wildlife - or indeed a garden at all. With some imagination, balconies, window boxes and other small outdoor spaces can provide food and habitat for wildlife, while the landscapes around us can provide the inspiration.

Local inspiration Image by Claire Naylor, © National Trust. Used with permission.

For Harriet and Stephen, that inspiration comes from East Anglia.

"In creating a garden, we wanted it to be both beautiful and attract wildlife," Harriet says. "Since the flat is two floors up, plants must be in containers. We had to check with the architect when we moved in that the balcony is weight bearing - which it is.

"Two years on, the garden is home to 140 plant species, most of which are native.

"We've grandly divided the balcony into ecological zones: woodland, which is anchored by a Scots pine, field maple and rowan tree; wetland, pond and bog gardens; grassland; and a coastal zone.

"It does reflect our local environment as we go walking along the North Norfolk coast and in woodlands. It also aims to attract different species of wildlife."

Gardening at height

Creating a garden two floors up brings challenges that gardeners at ground level don't necessarily face. Everything has to grow in containers, the weight the balcony can safely support is important, and plants in pots can dry out much more quickly than those growing in the ground.

That was particularly pertinent this year. The UK experienced its hottest summer on record, while East Anglia endured some of the most extreme heat. Maintaining such a varied container garden through those conditions is impressive in itself.

Harriet and Stephen's efforts have earned them first place in the Wild about Wildlife category of the National Trust's Sky Gardening Challenge, which encourages people living in flats and apartments to green balconies, window boxes and ground-floor spaces.

This was the first year the competition had been held nationally, following a pilot in Manchester in 2025. Nearly 10,000 people signed up for the wider challenge and almost 150 entries were submitted, with judges visiting the 15 finalists before selecting winners across five categories.

Small spaces, big potential Image by Claire Naylor, © National Trust. Used with permission.

One balcony may be tiny, but add them together and the potential space for nature becomes considerable. Research from the University of Manchester estimates there could be more than 430,000 balconies across England and Wales, covering 177 hectares - roughly the area of 250 football pitches.

Victoria Holden, founder of Greater Manchester community organisation Northern Lily and one of the competition judges, says they were looking for people who had overcome the particular challenges of gardening at height.

"We were looking for people who had taken on the challenges that gardening at height can bring, who had gone that extra mile, however small their space, and learned something along the way," she says.

"We met so many people who are making sustainable choices and attracting wildlife and pollinators into their spaces. It has been so wonderful to see what people can do."

Slow gardening

National Trust urban ranger and fellow judge Dot Tye says the entries also reflected a move towards what she calls "slow gardening", with people considering the longer-term ecological consequences of their choices.

"I have loved reading people's reasons for getting involved as well as visiting them across the country to see their sky gardens," she says. "I think there is a move towards slow gardening where people are reflecting on the decisions they make and considering the long-term ecological impact.

"We advocate for peat-free planting and pass this on to our sky gardeners. It's great to see them taking their love of nature that step further."

For Harriet and Stephen, that has meant looking beyond their balcony for inspiration and bringing something of the local landscape home. Woodland, wetland, grassland and the North Norfolk coast have all found their way into one small space above Norwich.

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