Trader Tales: Stories from the market
Trader Tales:Stories from the market is a new project by artist/photographer/producer Diana Henry. It evolved following her many visits in 2024 to the newly formed local community market in Colliers Wood. Armed with camera and curiosity, she started to get to know the people at the market’s heart - the traders and stallholders.
Trader Tales captures their individual, surprising and inspiring stories, going beneath the products and brands to uncover why they started, how they are developing their dreams and what keeps them going.
The project launches with an Exhibition in March 2025 at Forty Community Coffee in Tooting, SW London.
As it develops, Diana will continue to follow the traders with her camera. She will also be interviewing them and developing some of the stories to create the first of a proposed series of Trader Tales books. The aim being to extend the project to other local markets and communities.
