STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Eyeing up Istanbul
JOHN GREEN recommends an exhibition of images of his native city by one of the world's greatest photographers
Kakakoy, 1956
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Ara Guler
Saatchi Gallery, London
THE WORK of Ara Guler may not be too familiar in this country but he was one of Magnum agency’s leading photographers over many years and produced a large body of stunning work.
Guler, who died last year, was born in 1928 in Istanbul. The son of Armenian parents — something this Turkish state-sponsored exhibition prefers to ignore — throughout his life he was regarded as a significant global representative of Turkey’s creative photography.
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