Ronald Phillips (born 22 November 1944), better known as Charlie, also known by the nickname Smokey, is a

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n-born restaurateur, photographer, and documenter of black London. He is now best known for his photographs of

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during the period of West Indian migration to London; however, his subject matter has also included film stars and student protests, with his photographs having appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Vogue'' and in Italian and Swiss journals. Notable recent shows by Phillips include ''How Great Thou Art'', "a sensitive photographic documentary of the social and emotional traditions that surround death in London's African Caribbean community". His work has been exhibited at galleries including

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, Nottingham's New Art Exchange, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and

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, and is also in collections at The Wedge, London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), as well as the Tate. A portrait of Phillips by photographer Aliyah Otchere was acquired by the

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in 2021. Phillips was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to photography and the arts.

Early years

Born in

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, Jamaica, Phillips spent his early childhood with his grandparents in

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after his parents had migrated to Britain. He developed an early interest in naval matters: "We used to wait for the tour ships to come in and we used to try and sell them something or try and escort them somewhere or show them around Kingston harbour. At that time Kingston was a main shipping port in the Caribbean.... Every afternoon after school I used to go down to the pier and watch different ships coming in. It was the era of big immigration to England.""Charlie Phillips Story"
Moving Here Stories, The National Archives. (From a contribution at Reminisence Conference on the History of West Indian Seamen, held at Museum in Docklands, 28 February 2004.) At the age of 11, Phillips too made the journey from Jamaica to England, sailing on the ''Reina del Pacifico'', a Pacific Steam Navigation Company passenger ship: "This was a one of my most memorable experiences.... We visited different ports.... We visited Cuba, Bermuda, and I saw Santander in Spain and we ended up in Plymouth. Ever since then I've had a fascination for ships and docks and the sea." He joined his parents in London, on 17 August 1956, and the family lived among other West Indian immigrants in

, at the time a poor area of the capital characterised by Rachmanism and racism.Charlie Phillips page
at Akehurst Creative Management. Phillips recalls: "We lived at number 9 Blenheim Crescent, and we had to share a room with two strangers, in what they called a double room. It was a refuge point for a lot of people who came here and didn't have anywhere to stay at first." He says: "I was an altar boy at a church called St Michael when Kelso Cochrane was buried n 6 June 1959– one of the biggest funerals in Notting Hill at the time. It was just after the

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and because my parents thought there would be trouble that's the only day I didn't go to the procession. These were the days where for coloured people it wasn't safe to walk on the street, especially when

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was at his peak." Phillips worked in his parents' restaurant "Las Palmas" in

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. Notwithstanding early dreams to become a naval architect or an opera singer,Andrew Steeds
"Regrets? He's had a few … A profile of Charlie Phillips, photographer and contributor to ''100 Images of Migration''"
Migration Museum Project, 26 August 2015. he began his photographic career by accident when, while still very young, he was given a

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by a black American serviceman. Phillips taught himself to use it ("I bought a book from

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on how to take photos and learnt from my mistakes") and began to photograph life in Notting Hill,Charlie Phillips biography
, itzCaribbean.com. making his prints in the family bathroom after his parents had retired to bed.

1960s–1980s

After joining the Merchant Navy for a while (serving as a galley boy and developing an interest in marine biology and maritime history), Phillips travelled widely in Europe, to Sweden, Switzerland, France and Italy. Caught up in the protest movements of the late 1960s, he took photographs of the

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in Paris and Rome. He also took

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-style pictures of celebrities including

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and

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. After meeting

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, Phillips was given work as an extra in the 1969 film ''

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''. He worked as a freelance photographer for magazines — "An agency would take some of my work. You'd get two or three quid, which was survival" — and had his first exhibition in Milan in 1972, entitled ''Il Frustrazi''"How Great Thou Art – 50 years of African Caribbean Funerals in London"
Photofusion. and portraying the lives of urban migrant workers. Returning to London after several years, Phillips lived "a bohemian life of squats and pop festivals". Described as "A card carrying member of the 'sex, drugs and rock n roll era, he ended up at a party where he took photographs of

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but ironically could get no British news editor to publish them. Throughout the 1960s he documented aspects of urban life in Notting Hill and the shifts taking place in the cultural landscape, including racial integration and the birth of Carnival."Important Afro-Caribbean photographic archive acquired for Museum of London with Art Fund help"
Artfund, 1 October 2009. Throughout the 1980s, Phillips regularly took photographs that document West Indian

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, at

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and elsewhere, which have been collected together under the title ''How Great Thou Art: 50 Years of Afro-Caribbean Funerals''."How great thou art: 50 years of Afro-Caribbean funerals – in pictures"
''The Guardian'', 25 July 2014. In 1988, he moved to south London and opened a diner at 131 Wandsworth High Street,

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, called Smokey Joe's, which often featured in restaurant guides, running it for 11 years, while building up a collection of shipping memorabilia but not pursuing his career as a photographer, demoralised by not being able to get his work published.Angela Cobbinah
"Charlie Phillips: Photographer"
Thoughts, words and images, 25 October 2012.

1990s–present

''Notting Hill in the Sixties''

A revival of interest in the work of Charlie Phillips came with it being featured in an exhibition at the Tabernacle, Notting Hill, in 1991, coinciding with the launch of his book of photographs ''Notting Hill in the Sixties''. Introduced by writer Mike Phillips (no relation), the book includes photographs of everyday life in the area, covering poor housing conditions, musical entertainment and political activism.

''The Urban Eye''

Curator

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, speaking of the work in the 2013 exhibition ''Charlie Phillips: The Urban Eye'' (a 2014

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nomination), compared Phillips' significance to that of documentary photographers such as Markéta Luskačová, Shirley Baker and Tom Wood, saying: "Each photograph tells 'other' stories...about the rise of modern multicultural London and the migrant experience in the city." Reviewing the exhibition in the ''

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'', Mark Patterson called it "a reminder of a London and an England that has almost been wiped out of existence by redevelopment; a country where the business-driven 'regeneration' imperative has squeezed out authenticity and local texture. And for London, read Nottingham and many other towns and cities."

''How Great Thou Art: 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London''

Phillips' show ''How Great Thou Art: 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London'' opened in November 2014 at Photofusion Gallery in Brixton, curated by Eddie Otchere and Lizzy King, with support from

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's Grants for the Arts Fund.How Great Thou Art: 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London: Charlie Phillips, Photofusion"
. Film's not Dead. ''Hungry Eye'' magazine stated: "Photographer Charlie Phillips presents a sensitive photographic documentary of the social and emotional traditions that surround death in London's African Caribbean community. How Great Thou Art represents a lifetime's work by Charlie." The reviewer for ''The Root'' praised the exhibition as "a collection of beautifully evocative, powerfully elegiac images", describing Phillips as "a rare breed who combines the adventurous, pioneering spirit and perennial resilience of the hardy immigrant (he came to Britain in the 1950s) with the sensitive eye of the aesthete and a longing to transmute the banal, the prosaic and the unpalatable in ordinary existence into a thing of ineffable beauty." Accompanying the publication of a limited-edition book of the same title (successfully funded by

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), ''How Great Thou Art'' has been called "a new landmark in British photography. The question of life and death and the cultural responses to death through funerals in the Caribbean community has featured sporadically in various photographic oeuvres before but no one has explored this subject in such depth and in such a participatory and embedded manner as evidenced by Charlie Phillips." In ''

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'', Ian Thomson wrote: "In Phillips's moving and often beautiful images, dating from 1962 to the present, the bereaved are seen to face the mystery of the end of life in stush black suits, spidery hat veils, Rastafari head-ties, spiffy trilbies and strictly-come-dancehall white socks.... Anyone feeling a bit like death in the run-up to Christmas should invest in a copy of ''How Great Thou Art'' — and feel revivified." In October 2023, ''How Great Thou Art'' opened in Mayfair, central London, at the Centre for British Photography, the first time a solo exhibition has been presented in main space there.

''Heart of the Community''

Phillips is featured in the art installation by Peter Dunn commissioned by the

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on the Portobello Road north wall, in a series of photomurals celebrating key personalities, history and events of the Golborne and Portobello area over the past hundred years.

''Charlie Phillips Take Over''

On 17 June 2017, Phillips was guest curator at Black Cultural Archives for the day, to celebrate the forthcoming launch of the Charlie Phillips Roots Archive.

Exhibitions

*1991: ''Notting Hill in the Sixties''. The Tabernacle, London *2003: ''Through London's Eyes: Photographs by Charlie Phillips'',

. *2004: ''Notting Hill in the Sixties, The Black Hidden History and Heritage of Kensington and Chelsea''. Chelsea Library, London *2005–06: ''Roots to Reckoning'', Photographs by Charlie Phillips, Neil Kenlock and Armet Francis, Museum of London. Comprising 90 photographs of London's black community in the 1960s–80s, the ''Roots to Reckoning'' archive was subsequently acquired by the Museum of London. *2013: ''Charlie Phillips: The Urban Eye'', New Art Exchange, Nottingham. *2013: ''Shouting from the Sixties'', Film's not Dead, Mount Pleasant, London. *2014: ''How Great Thou Art: 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London''. Photofusion, London (7 November – 5 December 2014). *2015: ''Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience, 1950s – 1990s'', Black Cultural Archives, Brixton (January – June 2015), and V&A Museum, London (February and May 2015) — includes images by Charlie Phillips. *2015: ''Simon Schama's Face of Britain'',

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(NPG), London (September 2015 – January 2016). The programme of events complementing the exhibition included "Charlie Phillips: The Unseen Photographs", a conversation with Phillips and Eddie Otchere at the NPG on 3 December 2015, when "not only was every seat taken but the crowd that spilled out on to the stairs also joined in giving hillipsa standing ovation at the end of his presentation." *2017: ''How Great Thou Art: Documenting 50 years of Caribbean funerals in London'', The Tabernacle (2 November 2017 to 5 November 2017). Q&A with Alex Pascall, 5 November. *2021: ''Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s–Now'',

(December 2021–3 April 2022) *2022: ''Grove Survivors'', The Muse Gallery, 8 April–24 April 2022 *2023: ''How Great Thou Art - 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London'', Centre for British Photography, Jermyn Street, St. James's, London (5 October–17 December)

Notable works and recognition

Phillips' 1967 photo "Notting Hill Couple" appears on the cover of the CD ''London Is the Place for Me Vol. 2: Calypso Kwela Highlife and Jazz from Young Black London'' ( Honest Jon's Records). It also featured in ''Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience, 1950–1990s'', a collaborative exhibition by Black Cultural Archives and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), and in the National Portrait Gallery's 2015 exhibition ''Face of Britain.'' In March 2016 the photograph was selected by ''Time Out'' as one of "The 40 best photos of London ever taken", and was described by the magazine as "a picture that speaks volumes about London living and loving". Publications in which his photographs are reproduced include ''Carnival: A Photographic and Testimonial History of the Notting Hill Carnival'' (Rice N Peas Books, 2014), which followed from a 2011 exhibition of

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photographs curated by Ishmahil Blagrove that featured work by Phillips among others at The Tabernacle. The exhibition ''Charlie Phillips: The Urban Eye'', curated by Paul Goodwin at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, was longlisted for the

2014.

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, in an extract published in ''

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'' from his book ''The Face of Britain'', which features images from the

's collection, describes Phillips as "a visual poet; chronicler, champion, witness of a gone world ... one of Britain's great photo-portraitists", reproducing "Notting Hill Couple" alongside the article. Phillips has been called: "Arguably the most important (yet least lauded)

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photographer of his generation",Lindsay Johns
"Photos Capture Caribbean Rituals for Memorializing the Dead"
, ''The Root'', 17 November 2014. and a January 2015 feature in '' Time Out London'' referred to him as "the greatest London photographer you've never heard of – and some of his best works are only just being discovered". In 2017, Phillips appeared on the BBC Radio 3 programme '' Private Passions'', his musical choices including works by

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, in addition to the hymn "

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, Phillips was appointed an OBE. In February 2022, Phillips headed CasildART's list of the top six Black British photographers, alongside James Barnor, Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock, Pogus Caesar and Vanley Burke.

Film and television appearances

''Rootical'', a film by Nike Hatzidimon about Phillips' life, won the Best First Film Award at the

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in 2006."Launch of ‘Rootical: An Audience with Charlie Phillips'"
Black History Studies Blog, 11 May 2012. Phillips' life and work was covered in ''Neighbourhood Tales: Black And White'', broadcast in October 2003, in

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's ''Neighbourhood Tales'' slot.

Publications

* 1991: ''Notting Hill in the Sixties'', London: Lawrence and Wishart. Photography by Charlie Phillips, words by Mike Phillips. * 2005: ''Roots to Reckoning. The photography of: Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock, Charlie Phillips''. Seed Publications. Exhibition catalogue with introduction by Mike Phillips. * 2014: ''How Great Thou Art: 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London''. London: King/Otchere Productions, 2014. Edited by Lizzy King, with Preface by Mandingo, Foreword by Paul Goodwin, Essays by Empressjai, Michael McMillan, Sireita Lawrence-Mullings and Eddie Otchere. * 2015: "Black, White and Colour" in ''The Face of Britain: The Nation through Its Portraits'' by

. London: Penguin. . * 2017: ''Notting Hill in the 60s'',

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Charlie Phillips Heritage Archive project

A website featuring an online archive of Phillips' photographs, curated by Eddie Otchere and with National Lottery (United Kingdom), National Lottery funding, was launched in January 2018 as part of the Charlie Phillips Heritage Archive project. In 2021, the

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presented a selection of work entitled ''The Charlie Phillips Archive'', together with a short film (which also featured Eddie Otchere).

References

External links

*
Charlie Phillips biography
at Nicky Akehurst Creative Management * Ameena M. McConnell
"Charlie Phillips gets 'Rootical' in London's Portobello Road"
at Black Art in America, 14 August 2011.
''London Is the Place for Me Vol.2: Calypso Kwela Highlife and Jazz from Young Black London''
Honest Jon's Records.
"Charlie Phillips on Notting Hill in the Sixties"
''The Resident'', 22 August 2014. * Sophie Bush
"‘How Great Thou Art': local photographer captures Brixton's funeral fashions"
Brixton Blog, 13 October 2014.
"How great thou art: 50 years of Afro-Caribbean funerals – in pictures"
''The Guardian'', 25 July 2014. * TateShots
"Charlie Phillips on Salt and Silver Photography"
Tate Gallery, 12 March 2015. Also o
YouTube.

Charlie Phillips on Salt and Silver Photography TateShots
on YouTube.
"Charlie Phillips - A Photographer's Odyssey"
Paddington Central, October 2020.
"Interview with: The Lost Photographer, Charlie Phillips"
(video), The Photography Show. YouTube, 20 September 2021.
"Charlie Phillips talks to Amateur Photographer"
Amateur Photographer TV. YouTube, 13 September 2021.
"Charlie Phillips"
in conversation with

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(filmed October 2021), ''The FujiCast'', 28 March 2022.
"I Was Always Here"
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