Artist Rene Matić: ‘This story is about what, if anything, saves us’ | Photography

Rene Matić’s ‘Destination/Departure’, 2020

Two years ago, the young artist Rene Matić had the far-right slogan “Born British Die British” tattooed on their back. The words unfurl in a delicate font across their rippling shoulders in the elegiac black-and-white […]

‘You had to be quick!’: Henry Horenstein on his breathtaking Speedway pics | Photography

Henry Horenstein - Speedway 1972

Henry Horenstein was a student at the University of Chicago in the 1960s when he discovered the work of the leftwing English historian EP Thompson. Soon afterwards, on the advice of his tutor, he journeyed […]

‘Einstein was smiling at me!’ Photographer Marilyn Stafford, 96, on celebrities, slums – and breakfast with Edith Piaf | Photography

Marilyn Stafford in Lebanon, 1960

Marilyn Stafford’s career was hardly unsuccessful. The pioneering photographer quietly documented much of the 20th century – slums, celebrities, war zones, world leaders, everything. But she has never been celebrated like she is today. After […]