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The Last of the Real High Streets: Altun Food Store - Grocers

Object

Photograph

Production date

10/2010

Object number

2023.8

Physical Description

Print of a photo of a man working at a grocery shop. Around him are shelves of different fruits and vegetables. He is wearing a black hat and black coat. Part of a photo series by Colin O'Brien.

Object history

In 2010, photographer Colin O'Brien exhibited a collection of images at Chats Palace, an arts centre and theatre in Hackney. The exhibition showed photographs of people and the shops they worked at, owned or visited on Chatsworth Road.

O'Brien documented the changing shops and communities on Chatsworth Road - as well as Hackney in general - during his expansive career as a photographer.

The exhibition ran from 8th October to 27th November 2010.
The shop shown is Altun Food Store, a grocers and off licence which was located at 34 Chatsworth Road. The food shop was run by siblings Fatima, Bayrum and Morat and their father Hassan. The shop has since closed and a Turkish restaurant called Pivaz is now at the address.

Associated Organisation

Chats Palace (Featured)

Associated Person

Colin O'Brien (Photographer)

Associated Place

Chatsworth Road (Place)

Material

photo

Dimension

Length: 482mm
Width: 329mm

Credit line

ⓒ Colin O'Brien, 2010.

On display?

No