Andy Thatcher

These Poor Creatures - Photo|Frome 'These Poor Creatures' Photography, Inequality, and the Countryside A one-day forum of panel discussions exploring how rural inequality is being examined in contemporary photography Silk Mill Studios ...

You can catch me talking about my work, in illustrious company, next Saturday at Photo Frome photofrome.org/these-poor-c...

Lovely to see my photo (and Carrie’s book) in the wild!

Good news! This chapbook will be out with Red Ceilings (UK) in February. The amazing cover is by @andythatcher.bsky.social, and the work is dedicated to my former student, dear friend Isabelle Thompson, herself a great emerging poet. I'll do a local launch at @craftbath.bsky.social 20 Feb--join us!

‘Something horrible’: Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism Oxford analysis shows evidence of bloody massacre, with hand and feet bones chewed by human molars

Fascinating research by
Rick Schulting et. al, that adds traction to the possibility that the Later Neo/Chalco/BA in these islands may not have been as halcyon-like an existence as once believed.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson - 1: The Summer People - BBC Sounds The first of five deliciously dark short stories from the US queen of gothic horror.

How utterly fabulous. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

All The Haunts Be Ours Vol.2 gave me something to look forward to back in the UK. The Enchanted is more short story than feature film and like all great weird stories remains deliberately obtuse to the end. The killer synth soundtrack is a bonus. severinfilms.com/en-gb/produc...

An American Werewolf in London

Anti-fascist Christmas cards at the Graphics Museum, Stavanger. Red bobble hats were a symbol of resistance during Nazi occupation of Norway, and were banned; these cards, while also illegal, were insanely popular.

Andy Thatcher Photographer, film-maker, researcher and writer based in Exeter, Devon.

Hey friends new and old - this is some of what I get up to... andyjthatcher.com

Hello new/ old acquaintances and friends - I’m on the home stretch of a PhD which started off with making slow cinema documentaries and has ended with writing a folk horror screenplay. It’s all still about common land though. Honest!

When drilling the deep sea, surely it’s unadvisable to use a Cthulhu-themed drill bit? Seen at Stavanger Oil Museum…

An inspired and inspiring screening of The Red Shoes at Exeter Cathedral courtesy of Exeter Phoenix. It’s a film that’s been in the DNA of rule breaking cinema since 1948 and I can’t wait to see it again.