Books & Spoken Word
Invisible Britain launch
Launch event for photography book, Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience , published by Bristol-based Policy Press.
There will also be a screening of an accompanying film plus a Q&A panel with editor and director, Paul Sng, activist Karen Passmore and photographer Kirsty Mackay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSpSz7h3xb8&feature=youtu.be
is needed now More than ever
The book presents untold stories from people who have been left out of the media narrative and left behind by government policy. Featuring the work of accomplished documentary photographers, including Bristol-based Karen Passmore, the book presents people speaking in their own words to create a narrative showing how an unprecedented world of austerity, de-industrialisation and social upheaval is affecting us all.
The book captures and shares 40 untold stories of hope and resilience from a diverse range of people, many of whom feel misrepresented in the media and out of sync with the government and politicians.
Each story will is told in the individual’s own words and is accompanied by a portrait from an accomplished documentary photographer.
Michael Sheen has written the foreword to the book. He says: “These are people. Lives being lived. Each telling us a small but significant part of their story. Not as background colour to grit up a screen drama, or as council estate fodder for a tabloid scrounger story. These aren’t the bit-parts – today these are the heroes.”
“This book illustrates a truth we cannot ignore.” Ken Loach
“A beautiful collection – not bleak – a portrait of humour, resilience and endurance.” Kit de Waal
“Stories of defiance, of fight and of faith that a better country awaits us all.” Aditya Chakrabortty
“A profoundly important human document, haunting for all the right reasons, and must be read.” Alan Moore
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