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His photographs of people and places associated with Notting Hill depict both significant and everyday moments in the area’s history. Displays of black heritage became commonplace in Notting Hill’s multicultural community by the 1970s. Alongside annual celebrations of Caribbean culture in events like the Notting Hill Carnival, a sense of black pride was also increasingly evident in clothing styles, such as the African head wrap worn by the woman in the centre of this photograph.\r\n\r\nThe V&amp;A acquired ten photographs by Charlie Phillips as part of the Staying Power project. Staying Power is a five year partnership between the V&amp;A and Black Cultural Archives. The project aims to explore black British experience from the 1950s to the 1990s through photographs acquired by the V&amp;A and oral histories conducted by Black Cultural Archives. \r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"A black and white photograph of a crowd of people towards the corner of a street. 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