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Ridley Road Market, Dalston
Ridley Road, Dalston
One of London's great working markets. Afro-Caribbean food, fabrics, meat, fish, vegetables. Less gentrified than most. A functional market, not a tourist attraction.
Best time: weekday mornings. Saturday is busier.
Look for: the produce itself - extraordinary colours and textures. The traders. The regulars who've been coming for decades.
Camera Settings
Any. The colour here is remarkable — don't underexpose.
The Assignment
Go on a weekday morning. Photograph the market as a working place, not a spectacle.
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