Iain Sinclair has lived and worked in Hackney for sixty years. His books include Lud Heat, Downriver, London Orbital and, most recently, Pariah Genius, a psychobiography of the photographer John Deakin.
‘In Smiler’s confrontational images, the dead outnumber the living.’
Iain Sinclair introduces Mark Cawson’s photography.
‘The point of a good view is that it encapsulates, and gives relief from, the journey that has led up to it.’
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