Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952 in Epsom, Surrey) is a British documentary photogr

I am originally from a fine art background but after giving up with the demands of neo-expressionism in the 80s, turned to more cerebral disciplines. First cultural studies, then Lacanian Psychoanalysis (more recently an interest in Badiou) 

In between this wrote, produced, collaborat

Calvin Johnson is most often spoken of in relation to those with whom he has worked and whose careers he has helped further or create, whether by explicit or implicit means.  Indeed, he has worked with or influenced nearly all of the largest names in indie music over the past twenty years: Be

What is it about the creative spirit that often makes it so self-deprecating and sometimes so self-damaging? Did we all suffer the same childhood torments? What happens to the same spirit that drives people to points of world-changing genius? And what flips the switch and makes us believe that som