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Creative Brief: Beth Wilkinson

 For this month's creative brief, we speak to Beth Wilkinson, founder of Lindsay magazine: "The goal is to capture the real world through a curious and artisanal lens”

Portrait of Humanity: Protectors of the land

 “Madgo and Lokkhmi belong to the Dongria Kondh tribe,” explains Karan Kumar Sachdev of the subjects of her winning Portrait of Humanity 2019 image. “I stayed with them in their village in the Niyamgiri hills for a few days.” The tribe are a marginalised community in the south west of Odisha, India, an area that has been at the centre of a land dispute for several years. The Indian government has been campaigning to mine for bauxite in the area since the early 2000s, which the residents of the Niyamgiri hills have fiercely contested. For hundreds of years, the Dongria Kondh tribe, along with the Kutia Kondhs, and many communities of Dalits, have lived peacefully in quiet and inaccessible hamlets on the slopes of the Niyamgiri hills, but have found themselves having to fight to preserve their way of life, and their land. “The Dongria Kondh are a tight-knit community,” says Sachdev. “They are entirely removed from urban, or even rural, society as we know it.” The discovery of bauxite (a sedimentary rock that contributes …

Dora Maar: A solo retrospective

 A solo retrospective at Tate Modern shines a light on the forgotten legacy of an influential artist who has, until now, remained in the shadow of her famous partner