Bikers at the jukebox. Ace Café.
Bikers exterior
Boy girl frontispiece
Girl talks turns
Little guy at counter
Picks teeth
The pirates
The "Rey"
Top table
V-sign
John "Hoppy" Hopkins es un fotógrafo, periodista, impulsor de un legendario club (UFO Club) que tenía a los Pink Floyd como banda residente, cofundador de la revista International Times y conocido activista político y social británico. Licenciado en Física y Matemáticas comenzó una carrera laboral como físico nuclear pero pronto tomaría la cámara para retratar el emergente movimiento underground de la capital británica publicando sus instantáneas de músicos, manifestantes, poetas o personajes de la contracultura y los bajos fondos en algunos conocidos medios, acreditándole como uno de los potenciadores de la rápida extensión de aquella movida. En 1965 ayudó a establecer la escuela londinense que daría origen al conocido carnaval de Notting Hill. En 1967 fue sentenciado a nueve meses de prisión por su activismo para la legalización del cannabis. En los 70s trabajó para la UNESCO y posteriormente para otros organismos oficiales, época en la que abandonó la Fotografía en favor del trabajo en vídeo. En los últimos tiempos parece haberse decantado por la promoción de la biodiversidad vegetal a través de la Fotografía.
John "Hoppy" Hopkins is a photographer, journalist, founder of a legendary place (the UFO Club) with Pink Floyd as the resident band and co-founder of the International Times magazine (to wich he keeps contributing and editing) and a well known British activist on social and political issues. Graduated in Physics and Mathematics he began a career as a nuclear physicist but soon took on the camera to capture the emerging underground movement of the British capital city publishing the results in a variety of popular media publications and helping with his aim to the rapid extension of that movement. In 1965 he contributed to the set up of a school in London credited as the starting line of the famous Notting Hill Carnival. In 1967 he was sentenced to nine months in prison for his activism for the legalization of cannabis. Since the 70s he worked for UNESCO and other public affairs, a time in wich he gave up photography in favour of video. In recent times he seems to have opted for the promotion of plants biodiversity through Photography.
John "Hoppy" Hopkins is a photographer, journalist, founder of a legendary place (the UFO Club) with Pink Floyd as the resident band and co-founder of the International Times magazine (to wich he keeps contributing and editing) and a well known British activist on social and political issues. Graduated in Physics and Mathematics he began a career as a nuclear physicist but soon took on the camera to capture the emerging underground movement of the British capital city publishing the results in a variety of popular media publications and helping with his aim to the rapid extension of that movement. In 1965 he contributed to the set up of a school in London credited as the starting line of the famous Notting Hill Carnival. In 1967 he was sentenced to nine months in prison for his activism for the legalization of cannabis. Since the 70s he worked for UNESCO and other public affairs, a time in wich he gave up photography in favour of video. In recent times he seems to have opted for the promotion of plants biodiversity through Photography.
