KEVIN DONNELLY suggests that the task of transforming cultural spaces is far from over and that photography still has a key role to play
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‘It has given a wider audience to this undervalued culture’
Emily Ingram meets digital archivist ALEX GLEN WILSON, who explains how his work is illuminating Yorkshire’s radical film heritage
SEEKING MULTIPLE YORKSHIRES: Alex Glen Wilson
RITA DI SANTO talks to Scottish-Irish filmmaker MARK COUSINS about his new series The Story of Documentary Film
ALAN MORRISON welcomes a new collection from the most imaginative and committed ecopoet of our time
CAL McBRIDE relishes the lyrical truth of an unstable identity in an over-tidy and conventional social realist treatment
New releases from Shearwater, Florry, and Navy Blue
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
ALEX GLEN WILSON is, first and foremost, a collector. Having been an avid DJ and vinyl fanatic for a number of years, he sees “crate digging” for unique sounds as both an art form and a meaningful pastime.
But his collection extends beyond that of music. As a working audio-visual archivist, his principal aim lies within amassing a collection of documentaries, film clips and newsreels.
“I was born and raised in Hull, have lived in Leeds and Liverpool, and spent a decade working in London, where my sense of place and interest in the region’s stories really intensified,” he explains.
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If true, the photo’s history is a damning indictment of the systematic exploitation of non-Western journalists by Western media organisations – a pattern that persists today, posit KATE CANTRELL and ALISON BEDFORD
OLIVER SNELLING, a south London stonecarver and yeoman stonemason, relates how he is helping bring about a new festival next month
RITA DI SANTO gives us a first look at some extraordinary new films that examine outsiders, migrants, belonging and social abuse
MIKE QUILLE applauds an excellent example of cultural democracy: making artworks which are a relevant, integral part of working-class lives