Meat market on a Monday

Annalee Mather11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Often these days the only pieces of fresh meat you'll catch in the early hours round Smithfield market are the clubbed-out patrons from one of the area's numerous nightspots searching for a cup of 24-hour tea or an early-morning livener.

Chris Clunn dedicated three years to documenting the personalities and practices of the old Smithfield meat market that were to be swept away by modernisation in 1996. His black-and-white photographs provide a passport into a closed world that had previously resisted the camera.

Bummaree, from Thur 20 Jun, Smith's Of Smithfield, 67 Charterhouse Street, EC1 (020-7278 8202).

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