Selected writing
As well as writing for theatre, I also write articles on film, media and politics. My work has appeared in The Guardian, Little White Lies, Verso, Metro, among other publications.
Please find a selection of my writing on this page.
Peter Kennard and the Art of Dissent at London’s Whitechapel Gallery
Observer
https://observer.com/2024/09/peter-kennard-archive-of-dissent-exhibition-review-whitechapel/
Imprisoning activists endangers us all
Shado
https://shado-mag.com/act/imprisoning-activists-endangers-us-all/
Green Border: a new film shines a light on violent borders
Shado
https://shado-mag.com/see/green-border-a-new-film-shines-a-light-on-violent-borders/
At London’s Imperial War Museum, Tim Hetherington’s Unorthodox War Photography
Observer
Review: Sebastião Salgado at London’s Somerset House
Observer
https://observer.com/2024/04/review-sebastiao-salgado-somerset-house-london/
The Stuff of Nightmares: Sex on Screen and It Follows at Ten
InReview
https://inreviewonline.com/2024/03/15/the-stuff-of-nightmares-sex-on-screen
The Lasting Legacy of Bert Hardy’s War Photographs
London Magazine
https://thelondonmagazine.org/reviews-the-lasting-legacy-of-bert-hardys-war-photographs/
If you’re a man: The Iron Claw, sport and masculinity in film
A Rabbit's Foot
https://www.a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/film/the-iron-claw-sport-masculinity-film/
Voicing Inner Screams
Verso
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/giving-voice-to-inner-screams
In 1924, cinema was hailed as an agent of world peace. Has it failed?
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/23/cinema-peace-and-war-dw-griffith-charlie-chaplin
“A genius astrophysicist is a new one for me” — Zoe Telford on The Lazarus Project Season 2
Filmhounds
https://filmhounds.co.uk/2023/11/zoe-telford-on-season-two-of-the-lazarus-project/
Contributor: London Palestine Film Festival (paragraph in 9 brilliant film festivals to check out in London this winter)
Time Out
https://www.timeout.com/london/film/brilliant-film-festivals-to-check-out-in-london-this-winter
Closing the cinema will further divide St Andrews
Scottish Left Review
https://scottishleftreview.scot/tiger-woods-eats-up-the-cinema/
Love in Translation
Filmhounds
The original Frasier was genius – the reboot feels like it was written by ChatGPT
Metro
The challenge of changing the media narrative
International Broadcasting Trust
Exploring Ousmane Sembène’s activist cinema at 100
Little White Lies
Should your charity be on TikTok?
International Broadcasting Trust
A Danger to Activism
UK Youth Climate Coalition
Why did the National Library of Scotland write its Climate Action Plan?
History Collections