CREAM researcher Samuel Stevens will co-lead a Film & Photo League Archive project with Four Corners Film where participants will explore the history of the Workers Films & Photo League to create their own Super 8mm films to be exhibited at Four Corners Gallery,2025.

The Workers Film & Photo League (WFPL) was a group of radical amateur filmmakers and photographers, active in East London during the 1930s. Their films offer a unique picture of working class lives, resonating strongly with today’s concerns of food poverty, work precarity and the cost of living crisis.

The Film & Photo League Archive was created in 2019 to preserve rediscovered documents, film and photographs relating to the original group and to raise awareness about their work today. The East End Stories: Workers Newsreel Project is part of a wider project, Worker’s Film and Photography in East London, which is funded by a Lottery Grant awarded by the Arts Council England.

Find out more here.