Title | The Family

Running for seven weeks, ‘The Family’ will be the first work to exhibit at the White Cloth Gallery and will feature pictures from the acclaimed photographer Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s book of the same name. This unique exhibition complements his hugely successful and controversial 2002 book ‘The Firm’, which documented a thriving London underground dominated by the players who made their names in the 60s and 70s: Freddie Foreman, Tony Lambrianou, Reggie Kray and Joey Pyle among them.

‘The Family’ features images of the Pyle family, including the heirs of Joey Pyle. Jocelyn gains unprecedented access into the family’s most intimate moments, including funerals, parties and first holy communions. The candid pictures also show the Pyles off duty, relaxing at home, watching football on TV and fooling around with the kids. There are few plastic gangsters here – the exhibitionism of the late 90’s has given way to realism. The game has changed, and the Pyles are astute enough to recognise this.

Three years in the making, ‘The Family’ honestly captures the everyday lives of Jocelyn’s subjects. He bravely shot the exhibiting works using traditional film – only able to see what his lens had captured once the film was developed.