Copywriter and freelance journalist from Leeds. Here's some stuff I've done. That's it, really.
In a new series of photographs, Tariq Zaidi captures the control gangs have over the wider Salvadoran society and the grief caused by the pervasive violence. In a new series of photographs, Tariq Zaidi captures the control gangs have over the wider Salvadoran society and the grief caused by the staggering levels of violence.
Max Porter's new novel imagines the last days of a painter who shares his obsession with mortality. Max Porter is a writer who's spent a long time thinking about death. "I would say I'm a death-obsessed, or a mortality-preoccupied, person," he said recently in a video interview from his home in Bath, England.
In his first release since 2015's Killing & Dying, Adrian Tomine lays bare the disappointments, humiliations and professional slights of his journey from self-publishing prodigy to internationally regarded cartoonist. In a series of autobiographical sketches from childhood to the present day, Tomine casts a cynical and unforgiving eye on his fragile ego, the dubious rewards of his successful career and the absurdity of the comic-book industry.
Have you ever felt homesick for a place that doesn't exist? Joe Mortell is a 3D artist who captures this unique sensation, crafting surreal social spaces so inviting it feels like you could reach out and touch them. A former student of Central Saint Martins, Mortell now works as a designer for the New York Times.
"On my first day on set, I'm supposed to be driving Tony Soprano [the late, great, and not unintimidated, James Gandolfini]. It was the first day I'd met him, I didn't really know him at all. And I smashed the car." "I thought it was going to get fired.
Symbols of beauty and elegance since ancient Greece, swans are considered untouchable to most people. The idea of killing a swan for food likely fills you with revulsion and the moral indignation usually reserved for domesticated animals, like cats or dogs.
Tony Davis discusses his candid shots of unbridled joy from Britain's clubbing golden era and what his photos mean to a generation of ravers looking back on the nights that defined their youth. Tony Davis discusses his candid shots of unbridled joy from Britain's clubbing golden era and what his photos mean to a generation of ravers looking back on the nights that defined their youth.
On the morning of April the 26th, 1986, a power surge caused a reactor explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union.
A new book compiles magazines, pamphlets and posters distributed in the USSR during the space race. A new book compiles magazines, pamphlets and posters distributed in the USSR during the space race - a period when even the furthest reaches of the galaxy felt reachable.
If you've laughed at a British television show in the past 15 years, you'll recognise Matthew Holness. After a series-stealing cameo as Simon the IT guy in The Office ("Oi, no professionals"), Holness found belated success after writing and starring in surreal 2000s comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - a tongue-in-cheek paranormal caper set in a Romford hospital, wherein the protagonist, Rick Dagless, accidentally opens a portal to hell.
James Blackburn is capturing the retro glory of disappearing launderettes. Once fixtures of the high street, launderettes are disappearing. James Blackburn has set out to capture their retro glory before it's too late. Before washing machines became a ubiquitous household appliance, launderettes were a necessity of life and a common meeting place for local communities.
The Bradford Jesus Man walking through the city. Photo by Peter Hughes. From the patrons of Hartlepool's can house to the enduring cult fame of the Norwich puppet man, Britain's provincial towns are filled with weird, mythologised and well-loved characters. One of the most famous resides in the much-maligned city of Bradford.
Electric boxes. It's doubtful you, or anyone you know, has any strong feelings about them. Primary school teacher and part-time street artist Andy McVeigh, on the other hand, certainly does. He's been daubing dull electric boxes around Leeds since last year, replacing the lifeless green with vibrant Leeds United-themed murals depicting classic shirts, lyrics of chants and stencils of players past and present.
Showcasing the design elements that have positively washed football with a creative edge, Matt Caldwell has created '1 Shilling'. As he brings together some programmes from the past with an inspired delivery, we take a closer look at his collection.
Illustrations by Adam Menzies 'TWO DEAD FANS, ONE DEAD CLUB' reads a grim makeshift banner at a football ground. Amidst a miasma of flare smoke and a chorus of boos, hisses and chanting, it is held aloft by the thick, tattooed forearms of a man who resembles a darts player that never quite made it.
On 6 August, 1946, a nuclear bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly wiping out 40,000 human lives. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of people over the ensuing years.
Issue 2 of 'Optic Nerve'. All images courtesy of Adrian Tomine. In 1991, a teenage Adrian Tomine began self-publishing Optic Nerve, a semi-autobiographical comic series starring an affable cast of oddballs and misfits. The stories were short, steeped in realism and drawn with elegance and subtlety - the beginnings of what would become Tomine's trademark style.
When we discuss atrocities like the Gulf War, it's simpler to think of the conflict as purely political, glossing over the millions of voices silenced by coalition bombs. Sarah Glidden's compelling new graphic novel, Rolling Blackouts, explores the untold stories of political and war refugees in Iraq, Turkey and Syria.
Wrote about the rise and eventual sacking of Bradford City's old mascot, the City Gent.
When Bradford City were relegated from League One, we were almost dead and buried by November. We'd fallen to 24th in the table, only rising to the giddy heights of 20th from this point until the end of the season. We hit a "turning point" during the festive period, with four wins, including 4-0 drubbings of Walsall and Rochdale.