Common People

Leah Gordon is an artist, curator and writer. Her film and photographic work has been exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Dak'art Biennale; the National Portrait Gallery, UK and MOCA, Miami, Florida. She is the author of Kanaval and the director and producer of the award-winning documentary Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters. Find out more here: leahgordon.co.ukStephen Ellcock is a bestselling author, art director, curator and online collector of images who has amassed over 600,000 followers across social media. He is the author of All Good Things, Time for Magic, The Cosmic Dance, Underworlds and Elements, among other books.Annabel Edwards is writer and researcher who has worked in publishing, journalism, and on numerous art projects. She has been documenting the free festival scene and New Age Travellers since the 1990s.

"Common People is a unique and truly magnificent book, from its luminous art images, to its sharp, probing essays, to its enduring love for the commoners past and present who are its subject — a monument to the vanquished and a monument of "history from below. Three cheers!" —Marcus Rediker, co-author of The Many-Headed Hydra"It is a major achievement by any measure, and it does what all great books do, it encourages our humanity." —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution and Brief Encounters with Che Guevara