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Gus Palmer

Gus Palmer is a documentary photographer and film-maker based in London. He has contributed to Channel 4, Al Jazeera, the British Journal of Photography and the Washington Post. He was one of the producers on the BBC’s Once Upon a Time in Iraq and is currently working on a BBC series about the global response to Covid-19.

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Art & Photography | Issue 154

Art & Photography | Issue 154

Al-Birr Islamic Trust Morgue, Greenwich Islamic Centre, April 2020

Gus Palmer & Poppy Sebag-Montefiore

‘Palmer’s portraits of Kafil Ahmed sit alongside those of other people risking their lives to take care of others.’

Art & Photography | Issue 143

Art & Photography | Issue 143

New Town Blues

Jason Cowley & Gus Palmer

‘They had believed they were coming to a new town. But, they said, Harlow wasn’t new: it looked old.’

Art & Photography | Issue 138

Art & Photography | Issue 138

Sick of Steel

Gus Palmer & Emilie Harley

Tamburi sits in the shadow of one of Europe’s largest steel plants. The pollution is giving the locals cancer.

Art & Photography | Issue 133

Art & Photography | Issue 133

The Hand’s Breadth Murders: Out-takes

Gus Palmer

‘You could look all over the world without finding traditions that have lasted as long as the ones here.’

Art & Photography | Issue 133

Art & Photography | Issue 133

The Hand’s Breadth Murders

Adam Nicolson & Gus Palmer

‘It is what happens in a place where revenge is the only justice.’