The New Yorker
June 25, 2012
Mayne is wonderfully alert to the skittering dynamics of children at play and their unself-conscious grace while at rest.
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Roger Mayne
The New Yorker Photo Booth
May 29, 2012
“My approach is visual rather than storytelling—I am a documentary rather than a journalistic photographer,” he said. “I have always had a habit of seeing and looking.”
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The New Yorker
November 12, 2007
One of the greatest living British photographers, Mayne is best known for his pictures of working-class children playing and hanging about on London's gritty Southam Street, made between 1956 and 1961.
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The New York Sun
November 1, 2007
Roger Mayne (born 1929) is one of the few important British photographers of the last half of the 20th century.
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The Village Voice
June 2, 2004
Mayne's genius, like Levitt's, was his ability to freeze spontaneity without sapping its spirit.
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The New Yorker
May 17, 2004
The pictures recall William Klein's and Helen Levitt's American street photography from the same years; Mayne was just as much a master of the decisive moment.
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The New York Sun
April 16, 2004
Images of working class Londoners and children playing soccer in the street convey a sense of immediacy.
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