Charlie Phillips was born in Kingston, Jamaica and came to Notting Hill in 1956 where he grew up against a background of hostility and prejudice in a part of London where racism, Rachmanism, rioting and sus laws, affected many people. When he was eleven he was given a Kodak Brownie by a black American serviceman and started snapping his friends and neighbours, particularly from the Caribbean Community. He developed the pictures in the bath at home, late at night when his parents had gone to bed. They were only too glad that he was not out on the streets at night and in any danger.
The Greatest London Photographer You've Never Heard of?
By Photography Daily - 12 May 2021
A talk by the irrepressible Windrusher photographer Charlie Phillips
By ContributionUK.org - 24 June 2018
"Welcome To Multicultural Britain" | Veteran Photographer & Activist Charlie Phillips | Brixto
By Content Over Everything - 2 Aug 2019
CHARLIE PHILLIPS SMOKIE JOE How Great Thou Heart Part 1 62016 FINAL MOVIE 1
By David Chen - October 2016
Concrete Jungle with Charlie Phillips
By Aliyah Otchere - December 2017
How Great Thou Art; edited from the Hi-8 recordings of videos by Charlie Phillips
How Great Thou Art singing