Bob Mazzer


Bob Mazzer is a British street photographer, living in St Leonards-on-Sea. His photographs of people on the London Underground were collected in the book Underground. Mazzer has also photographed people in Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea. He had a retrospective exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, in 2022.

Life and work

Mazzer was born in Whitechapel, London. He studied graphic design at Hornsey College of Art in London.
Mazzer photographed people on the London Underground in the 1970s and 1980s as he commuted to his job working as a projectionist at a porn cinema, and later. 40 years of these photographs were published in the book Underground.
He has since moved to St Leonards-on-Sea. His book Bob Mazzer, a restospective of work from the 1960s to the present day, includes "Underground images; hippie life in Wales; life in France; expanding life in the USA and local life in Hastings" and St Leonards. In Sussex includes photographs again from Hastings and St Leonards, as well as the surrounding countryside.

Publications

  • Underground. Spitalfields Life, 2014..
  • Bob Mazzer. London: Unicorn, 2020. With a foreword by Will Self..
  • In Sussex. London: Unicorn, 2022.. With a foreword by Eamonn McCabe. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.
  • Tube. Hastings: Silverhill, 2022.

    Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions