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Poll Tax Riot Kiss
by David Hoffman
Poll Tax riots, London 31 March ’90. The death blow for the discredited Thatcher goverment. More than 100,000 gathered in central London to protest against the tax. After repeated police charges on the crowd riots erupted, shops were looted, police vehicles & goverment property was attacked, buildings were burned. The total cost ran into 100s of millions of pounds.
Photographer
Best known for his pictures of uncomfortable subjects such as protest, drug abuse, racial politics and homelessness, David Hoffman began his work in the mid 1970s. Choosing to “photograph in an oppositional way to the state” he has built a body of work based around the belief that visual evidence of society’s problems can motivate people to respond with positive action.
Wanting to engage head on with the problems on his own doorstep, Hoffman’s photographs are based firmly in Britain rather than trawled from the more exotic and photogenic hot spots of the third world.
For more of David Hoffman's work, see: www.hoffmanphotos.com
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