Don McCullin

Don McCullinA native Londoner, McCullin (b. 1935) began to take photographs in the 1950s documenting his surroundings and local community, including the gangs in his local area. In 1958 his photograph The Guvnors, a portrait of a notorious Finsbury Park gang who were involved in the murder of a police officer was published in the Observer, launching his career as a photojournalist. He went onto become one of the best known war correspondents in the world.

from the seventeenth century to the present

Samba Gadjigo

Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors- from the wise Augustus and his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius and the insane excesses of Caligula

It took time and serious wooing to persuade Onyeabor to let new listeners

The rest of this compilation contains texts—more than half of which have never before been published—that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist

describing how each day unfolds

including Marilyn Monroe

Text in English

the legends derive from oral poetry composed many centuries earlier

and overcome the demons that have tormented him his whole life

This amazing

not allowing others' successes to throw it off course