Brick Lane 1970's

Photographer Fran May was 21-years-old and studying for an MA at the Royal College of Art when she first heard about Brick Lane. She’d developed a penchant for social documentary photography while studying Fine Art at university in Sheffield, travelling to over twenty destinations to take photographs during her time there.

This was before gentrification had crept into the area, and East London was still recovering from wartime derelictions.