Screening: Picture Stories

06:30pm - 07:45pm, Thu 11 Apr 2024

Watch this unique documentary that tells the story of Picture Post, the best-selling magazine in Britain that revolutionised the way photographers portrayed the lives of ordinary British people: at home, on the street, unposed

Black and white image showing a news stand with the words "Picture Post" and several figures standing outside

Screening: Picture Stories

6:30pm, Thu 11 Apr 2024

Watch this unique documentary that tells the story of Picture Post, the best-selling magazine in Britain that revolutionised the way photographers portrayed the lives of ordinary British people: at home, on the street, unposed

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From the perspective of some of Britain’s leading modern-day photographers, and through archive interviews with Picture Post photographers, writers and editors, get to the heart of the magazine and the picture stories that resonated so strongly with the British public.

Director: Rob West (Tales from the Two Puddings), DOP: Jonathan Smith (Peep Show), Editor: Kant Pan (The Crying Game)

Length: 74 mins
Completion date: 2021

 

Director biography

Rob West is an independent filmmaker. His first feature-length documentary, Tales from the Two Puddings, about the legendary Two Puddings pub in Stratford, East London, won the 2017 UVFF Best Documentary Award. He has produced and directed a number of short documentaries in London, Bangladesh, East Africa and Cambodia, exploring the stories of communities in unique environments.

 

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