A conversation on friendship, exile and his latest novel, My Friends, on the Libyan resistance.

Years of anti-immigration rhetoric has made us lose touch with our shared humanity. Given the strength of feeling, can a film festival bring humanity back to how we relate to each other as individuals and communities? Our reporter Holly Bootman attended the London Migration Film Festival and shares her reflections on the power of art to shift narratives on the so called 'refugee crisis'. 

Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an internationally renowned English/Swedish photojournalist who works for leading editorial publications all over the world on issues relating to women, population and war. She is a 2016 Harvard Nieman Fellow and spent a year at the university researching war, and how we tell stories about modern conflict. One Language is her debut collection of poetry, where verses sit alongside her powerful photography, creating a compelling method of storytelling that draws on Anastasia’s first-hand experience of conflict. Here, Anastasia shares with us a poem from One Language.