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In 2010 and 2011, East End culture blog www.spitalfieldslife.com published a series of portraits of the curry chefs of Brick Lane, telling the stories of these award-winning chefs accompanied with vibrant images by the prolific street photographer Jeremy Freedman. And the result is a distinguished body of portraiture, recording some of leading culinary personalities of the Bengali community in Brick Lane.

This exhibition is a celebration of these proud chefs - "working away like those engineers below deck on the great steam ships of old, they are the unseen and unsung heroes of Brick Lane's Curry Mile." These are the previously unseen faces and untold stories that reveal the personal narratives of Spitalfields' Bengali residents.

The chefs, from eleven Brick Lane restaurants, featured in the exhibition will put their usual friendly rivalry aside for the exhibition's opening night on Thursday 23 February where they will present guests with their signature dishes.

Photographer Jeremy Freedman’s ancestors were also immigrants, coming to Spitalfields from Holland in the eighteenth century. His great-great-great-great grandfather was one of the founders of Sandys Row Synagogue in 1854. And today Spitalfields Life and Rich Mix present this exhibition as a celebration of this unique neighbourhood at the very heart of London.

www.jeremyfreedman.com

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Exhibition: Thursday 23 February – Thursday 29 March, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, Free, 10am – Till Close

Exhibition Opening: Thursday 23 February, 6pm – 8pm, By invitationFor more information, visit http://bit.ly/xIWoX6.

http://www.richmix.org.uk/enews/eflyer/exhibition-opening-invitation/