JOHN DARWELL: Dark Days Paolo Ventura currently lives and

Paolo Ventura currently lives and works in New York

Here he met Māori who were in the process of reversing the colonisation of their people and returning to their ancestral land

A World Observed was published in 1970

it includes literary portraits

with its famously idiosyncratic citizenry and the unique energy of its streets

JOHN DARWELL: Dark Days Paolo Ventura currently lives andIn February 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease arrived in Cumbria. At its peak Cumbria was the worst affected county in Britain with a staggering 41% of all cases. For the local community the environmental and social consequences were to prove devastating. As a local resident, John Darwell found himself surrounded by the effects of the disease. Over the next twelve months he committed himself to recording what was taking place. Despite government reports to