I have known the Arts & Crafts connoisseur, collector and dealer Paul Reeves since the early Noughties when I approached him for the second edition of my fashion x music book The Look; Paul’s previous career as a designer took in such important 60s and 70s labels and boutiques as Sam Pig In Love, Alkasura and The Universal Witness.

From the off we got on like a house on fire and became firm friends; he was a major contributor to my Tommy Roberts book and the ever-generous Paul has often hosted Caz and I at his wonderful Wiltshire farmhouse.

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Tags: Alkasura, Claire de Rouen, Jermaine Gallacher, Jon Wealleans, Led Zeppelin, Oskar Proctor, Paul Reeves, Peter Grant, Sam Pig In Love, The Universal Witness, TON

//Janette Beckman’s 1980 image of Jerry Dammers of The Specials is included with documentary and portrait photography by the likes of Jane Bown, Bill Brandt,  Ian Macdonald, Colin O’Brien, Martin Parr and Jo Spence//

Curated by Christopher Bailey, creative director of sponsoring fashion brand Burberry, with Lucy Kumara Moore of bookshop Claire de Rouen and fashion/documentary photographer Alasdair McLellan, the exhibition Here We Are considers Britishness at this crucial juncture in our economic, political and social history.

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Tags: Bill Brandt, Brian Griffin, Chris Steele-Perkins, Christopher Bailey, Claire de Rouen, Colin O'Brien, Copyright 1978, Daffyd Jones, Daniel Meadows, Danny Reed, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Homer Sykes, Ian MacDonald, Jane Bown, Janette Beckman, Jerry Dammers, Jo Spence, Lucy Kumara Moore, Mark Stewart, Martin Parr, Paint Your Windows White, Power, Roger Mayne, Tessa Traeger, The Old Session House, The Pop Group

The intriguing new project from photographer Bradley Richards is Austerity Measures, a hand-bound and printed collection of observations taken in and around Canary Wharf, the capital’s business district and financial hub.

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Tags: Austerity measures, Box Brownie, Bradley Richards, Canary Wharf, Claire de Rouen, Kodak Tri-X, Somerset Black