People at work
A few years ago – before Brexit erased all other political conversation – Multistory worked with Magnum Photos on an
Tag: photography
Optimism is a valuable resource
Jubilee Arts was a pioneering community arts project founded in 1974, in West Bromwich, an industrial town west of
Who is the artist here?
Zoe Spawton is a 30 year old Australian working in a Berlin café. Ali Akdeniz is an 85 year old
The wrong question
I don’t know when people started asking whether the things in art galleries were actually works of art—sometime between the
Remembering not to forget
Forgotten empire The almost complete absence of imperialism and particularly of colonialism from British public discourse has always struck me
How to be an artist
‘I don’t care if you call my work journalism or art or whatever; whatever you want to call it is
Truth, lies and drawing ink
Documentary filmmakers have an obvious problem with everything that happened before the invention of photography. How do you make a
National Treasures
Gunnie Moberg (1941-2007) was a photographer, painter and designer, born in Sweden and an Orkney woman by adoption. A small
Portraying the change
How can you describe a cultural programme that has extended over 14 years, 9 countries and 3,000 projects? How do
A child’s view of the Miners’ Strike
Yesterday morning, Margaret Thatcher died. Her death has been followed by an explosion of polemic, encomium and vitriol, about what
Parliament of Dreams 