Nan Goldin
The activist and artist whose life, work and protest against the Sackler family, inspired the Oscar nominated film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
Nan Goldin has been documenting her life through photography since her teens, revealing and intimate portraits exploring issues from sex and drug addition to domestic violence and parenthood. Laura Poitras's film celebrating Nan's work, 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' has been nominated for an Oscar.
Mark Coles looks at the life of the acclaimed artist, whose addiction to prescription opioids made her determined to hold Purdue Pharma and their owners the Sackler family accountable for the US Opioid addiction crisis. The campaign resulted in galleries and museums around the world cutting financial ties with the Sacklers, because of their link to the prescription opioid OxyContin.
Presenter: Mark Coles
Producers: Viv Jones, Tural Ahmedzade and Ben Cooper
Editor: Richard Vadon
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- Sat 28 Jan 2023 19:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sun 29 Jan 2023 05:45麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sun 29 Jan 2023 17:40麻豆社 Radio 4
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