The Photographer Who Spied for the Soviets

If you think documentary photography is a modern invention, Edith Tudor Hart was doing the hard version of it ninety years ago, shooting poverty and social injustice in London while simultaneously running a Soviet spy network. The biography is worth your attention not for the espionage angle, which every headline leads with, but because Tudor Hart was a genuinely skilled photographer whose work documented working-class Britain with real editorial intent. A reminder that the tradition you're working in has serious, complicated people in it.