Nathaniel Martello-White on making his directorial debut with the psychological thriller The Strays, set between a south London estate and an affluent English suburb.
Chila Kumari Singh Burman\u2019s show at FACT in Liverpool, Merseyside Burman Empire, references her MBE for services to Visual Art, awarded last year in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours, and her experiences growing up in Bootle as the daughter of Punjabi-Hindu parents. Dawinder Bansal\u2019s Jambo Cinema installation, which explored her life growing up in 1980s Wolverhampton with Indian-Kenyan parents, was one of the big commissions at last year\u2019s Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival in Birmingham. Chila and Dawinder discuss making art that draws upon their South Asian heritage.
Throughout her career, the distinguished writer Janet Malcolm, who died in 2021, was fascinated by photography. She came to prominence through her journalism for the New Yorker including six years as the magazine\u2019s photography critic. Photography was the subject of her first book and it has turned out to be the subject of her final book, a memoir \u2013 Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory. Photographer of the Year Craig Easton reviews.
Presenter: Nick Ahad\nProducer: Ekene Akalawu
Photo caption: Ashley Madekwe as Neve in The Strays\nPhoto credit: Chris Harris/ Netflix \xa9 2023