Notting Hill Couple, 1967 by Charlie Phillips. He was part of the Windrush Generation who faced terrible discrimination and overt racism on their arrival in Britain. This photo is one of his best known and may seem unremarkable now but less than ten years before attacks on

mixed-race couples were common and triggered a series of race-riots in 1958. He is one of the most talented but overlooked photographers of the period and his archive documenting the black experience in London at the time is remarkable and should be better known.

In spite of the quality of his work and his insightful documenting of these communities Charlie Phillips struggled to get any recognition and couldn’t get published, eventually abandoning photography and opening a diner in 1989.

You can find some of Charlie Phillips’ work in this book along with the work of Neil Kenlock and Armet Francis all of whom should be better known.

Throughout all of the time I have been interested in photography I have always been struck by how weighted the system is against Black photographers with too much talent going unrecognised and opportunities being restricted. It’s an all too common theme.

Contrast the experiences of Phillips, Kenlock and Francis who were documenting their own communities with no recognition with that of Colin Jones who photographed the series ‘The Black House’ in Holloway for the Sunday Times which was greeted with critical acclaim.