In conversation with Billy Bragg for PhotoLondon

The good folk at PhotoLondon selected BANK TOP as their book club ‘Book of the Month’ with a lovely review: https://photolondon.org/book-club/bank-top/ and I was joined by the great Billy Bragg for an ‘in-conversation’ this week in which we looked at various issues the work aims to examine. We talked about challenging stereotypes and simplistic labelling by the media (Blackburn as ‘segregated’ and Billy’s home town of Barking as ‘racist’), and we talked about the similarities between photography and music in how we try to present new perspectives…