Bandele 'Tex' Ajetunmobi (b. Lagos, Nigeria) was a self-taught photographer who stowed away on a boat to Britain from Nigeria in 1947. He chose to leave Lagos as he found himself an outcast on account of the disability he developed from having polio as a child. After settling in East London, he began recording the daily lives of his friends and acquaintances, particularly on the streets and in the pubs, shops and clubs around Whitechapel, Stepney and Mile End. He continued to document the area for almost half a century, focusing on immigrant communities and the multi-racial nature of the area. His photographs, rarely seen outside his circle of family and friends at the time, are an important historical document of social and cultural life in the East End.