Chris Dorley-Brown: Drivers in the 1980s is a look back at London car culture (PHOTOS).

Being Stuck in Traffic Never Looked So Good

Of all the things to photograph, people stuck in traffic jams during the middle of the summer doesn’t really sound like a lot of fun. But Chris…

via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/06/02/chris_dorley_brown_drivers_in_the_1980s_is_a_look_back_at_london_car_culture.html

Of all the things to photograph, people stuck in traffic jams during the middle of the summer doesn’t really sound like a lot of fun. But Chris Dorley-Brown did just that over the course of two summers in the mid-1980s in East London for what was initially an assignment to photograph the privatization of Rolls Royce. What caught his attention were the traffic jams around the financial district, only a couple of weeks before Margaret Thatcher’s third and final landslide victory.