winter fires – Regular Marvels

Singing in the ambulance

Everything is Connected At the end of his hour long set in the Federation Hall last night, the singer introduced

A quick post to highlight a radio programme called The Folklorist, about Izzy Young, who was central to the Greenwich Village

An ethnographer’s perspective on drawing A few weeks after the publication of Winter Fires, I was contacted by the editor

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Jean, flautist with Fred’s Folks Ceilidh Band Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the…

It’s an old-fashioned ladies hairdressers’, on a down-at-heel high road in the West Midlands. The owner – let’s call her

Each project in the ‘Regular Marvels’ series is a collaboration between me and an artist whose work I value. Although

Elder Abuse in Kyrgyzstan There is an extraordinary series of photographs in the latest issue of Anthropology and Ageing Quarterly

Winter Fires: Art and agency in old age is published today. Old age haunts the human imagination. Nowadays, it also

Here are Mik Godley’s final portraits, which are reproduced in Winter Fires. They start with photographs I made, in discussion with the