The bard rests on his laurels, and swipes left and right
‘The US has reached a tipping point’
JOHN GREEN appreciates the clarity with which a GDR-born photographer observes the ‘post-competitive cannibalism’ of the contemporary US
Los Angeles, CA, 2019
[Michael Dressell] 
MARIA DUARTE cherishes the flashes of absurd humour and theme of community healing in a documentary set in a Soviet-era Black Sea sanatorium
ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review The Courageous, The Cut, Christy, and On Swift Horses
TOM STONE sings the praises of one of the oldest open-air festivals in Britain
Chris Searle speaks to accordionist KAREN STREET
MAYER WAKEFIELD speaks to Urielle Klein-Mekongo about activism, musical inspiration and the black British experience
The End is Near, Here
Michael Dressell, Hartmann Books, £35
HELL has reserved a ringside seat for Michael Dressel.
He seeks out places that most of never see, and he always has his camera with him to photograph the damned as they struggle through their daily lives.
His camera captures provocative images in Europe, Africa and Asia, but these do not show the disturbing chaotic power of the 21st century US hellscape in which we are drifting towards our destruction.
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