A prominent member of the charitable Pearly Kings and Queens Society, Doreen Golding as featured in ‘Voices East London’ by Maryam Eisler
Maryam Eisler is a busy woman; co-chair of the Tate?s MENAAC Acquisitions Committee,  member of the Tate International Council, trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery and Advisory Council member of Photo London are to name just a few of her roles in the art world, but first and foremost, she is an artist. Digital Editor Millie Walton speaks with Maryam Eisler about her most recent project Voices East London, the power of art versus politics and the democracy of social media.
Maryam Eisler
LUX: You’ve worked in the art world for a long time in various guises and interacted with lots of artists – when did you start taking your own photos"
Maryam Eisler: I?ve actually been taking photographs seriously for about 20 years now; I did courses and all sorts of photographic ventures, but I never dared to go out publicly. Two years ago, I had just completed a residency in Santa Fe, New Mexico where I explored the arid landscape and the female form, inspired by nature and by the personality of Georgia O’Keefe, in particular- her life and her oeuvre; a friend saw the photographs I?d taken there and she asked me which artist they were by, to which I answered ?It?s not an artist, it?s me!? She collects photography herself from the 50s and the 60s and was drawn to the black and white, the classical style ? in any case...