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Behind the Shop Facade: the life and times of Maurice Dorfman | photo essay

For the last 18 months, the photographer Jim Grover has been piecing together the life of Maurice Dorfman, who died in February 2020, aged 87, in his project Behind the Shop Facade. A grandchild of Ukrainian refugees who fled pogroms at the turn of the century, Maurice ran Jeannette Fashions, a traditional haberdashery shop and the longest surviving independent shop on Clapham High Street

“More than 60 people have shared their memories and mementoes with me, such is the breadth and depth of affection for Maurice in the local community, and the desire to help me create a fitting tribute,” says the south-London photograher about Maurice Dorfman.

“Tucked away in one of Maurice’s cupboards, I stumbled across some dust-encrusted boxes which contained a collection of early 1960s Kodachrome slides of family life. I have had them restored especially for the exhibition; they are wonderfully evocative of sixties life.”

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