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By Paul Wright As a young punk from Broxburn in West Lothian, Graham MacIndoe started out on his creative path studying painting at Edinburgh College of Art. That all changed
Paul Wright | 29 August 2020, Photographer Tony Davis grew up on Nottingham’s Clifton Estate during the sixties and seventies. As a working class kid, his first taste of music
Jeff Barrett | 22 August 2020, 08:30am About ten years ago I received an email, totally out of the blue, from a fella that I knew when we were teenagers.
Paul Wright | 9 July 2020, One of the greatest pleasures of my work with British Culture Archive is discovering a body of work that has been sat unseen in
By Paul Wright Janette Beckman’s work has spanned more than five decades, a portrait and documentary photographer she captured the rise of punk in seventies London, as well as soundsystem
By Paul Wright Jürgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin in 1931, after working as an apprentice photographer for a German Press Agency in Hamburg he emigrated to South Africa in
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