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Charlie Phillips: A Windrush Kid in London

The archive of one of Britain’s greatest photographers is being brought together by Bluecoat Press in a beautifully curated, designed and printed book.

Charlie Phillips describes himself as a “Windrush kid”. He arrived in London from Jamaica in the late 1950s at the age of 11. It was a time of slum landlords and race riots. He spent his teenage years in Notting Hill – back then regarded as a ghetto...

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