David Hoffman has worked as an independent photojournalist since the 1970s. It didn’t take long for him to discover that documenting the increasingly overt control of the state over our lives was what motivated him. He soon decided to run his own photo library, giving him the freedom to choose his own subject matter. His work sheds what some might see as an unforgiving light across racial and social conflict, policing, drug use, poverty, and social exclusion.

Protest, and the violence that sometimes accompanies it, is a thread that has run throughout his career, and at one point gained him a reputation as ‘the riot photographer’s riot photographer'. Determination and a willingness to look uncomfortable realities in the eye underpin all of his work, from the metamorphosis of London’s East End to the documenting of homelessness, protest, and oppressive policing. Some find the pictures raw and uncomfortable, but his intention is to document dispassionately and let the images stand as social challenge. By engaging with the image, we are forced to recognise the world as others live it and to consider our own position.

Documenting the reality of injustice, frequent state oppression and the all too often tragic consequences, his work has supported legal challenges, brought racist perpetrators to justice, and most importantly, reached wide audiences through mass media publication for more than 40 years.

David Hoffman
Website: https://www.hoffmanphotos.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DavidHoffmanUK/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHoffmanUK Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@DavidHoffmanuk
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhoffman3/
Tearsheets: https://www.hoffmanphotos.com/-/galleries/publications

Publications:
Cafe Royal Box Set: https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/england/david-hoffman-adverse-circumstances-signed-box-set

Interviews:
Roman Road: https://romanroadlondon.com/david-hoffman-interview/
Exposure Works: https://exposureworks.co.uk/lightbites-david-hoffman/
The Kiss & Kieran: https://thelondoncolumn.com/2014/11/11/david-hoffman-polices-london/
Frontline Club: https://youtu.be/tcleOZ1VGGc

Thank you for all your support.

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