Black Country Stories

Telling stories about the everyday in the Black Country

 

Black Country Stories is an innovative portrait of life in our part of the post-industrial Midlands. It reinvents the creative documentation of working class Britain by artists from Humphrey Jennings to Stanley Spencer, George Orwell to Bill Brandt. It does so through the unique connections between Black Country people and international artists enabled by Multistory, through a globalizing, diverse perspective and through its use of new technology to make and distribute the work.

Black Country Stories is a multi-commission programme, produced by Multistory, that invites outstanding artists to document and record life in the Black Country. Black Country Stories commissions internationally renowned documentary photographers, film makers and authors, which include Martin Parr, Mark Power, David Goldblatt, Margaret Drabble and many more, to tell amazing stories that celebrate everyday life in the Black Country.

This body of work will be commissioned and produced over the next four years in partnership with local community groups and individuals to produce a multi-layered, multi-dimensional, multi-story.