Somayeh Jafari
Photographer and director Somayeh Jafari draws on her Iranian heritage and its tradition of poetic documentary to create ‘painful beauty’ in all her work.
An Interview: Episode 11
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Ivor Braka (An Interview: Episode 03)
Ivor Braka has established himself as a leading London based art dealer specialising in major works from the likes of Picasso, Francis Bacon and Paula Rego.
Christopher Bucklow (An Interview: Episode 06)
We visited Christopher Bucklow’s Somerset studio, where he creates dream-like portraits through experimental pinhole photography.
Sol Bailey-Barker (An Interview: Episode 08)
Sol Bailey-Barker compiles artefacts and remnants to construct immersive installations and environments. The multi-disciplinary artist works with sound, sculpture and performance that call to his nature of being “stuck between reality and dream” as a result of an auto-immune disease he faced as a child. In these tough times for our community and beyond, here is the dreamlike world of Bailey-Barker.
Blenheim Forge (An Interview: Episode 09)
In Peckham’s Blenheim Forge, exceptional Japanese-inspired kitchen knives are crafted by hand to the most exacting standards, but it started out as a backyard hobby. Here, owners Jon Warshawsky and Richard Warner explain all.