Director: Andy Mundy-Castle

The subject of this documentary, Misan Harriman, has been in the news recently where various right wingers have been campaigning to remove him from his post as Chair of the Board of trustees for London’s Southbank Centre, which probably has a lot more to do with Harriman’s support for Palestine than any qualms about governance. The son of a billionaire politician and businessman from Warri, Nigeria, Harriman was educated at Surbiton House prep school and Bradfield College before he began working in the City. He set up a photography agency ‘What We See’ in 2017 and a career photographing celebrities and royalty followed. But it is his excellent photo reportage of the Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matter, and London pro-Palestine marches that is foregrounded here. While the photos are indelible, the makers eschew deep contextual dives on his powerful pictures of protests around the world, in favour an unfocused study of Harriman’s ‘journey’, where, alas, Harriman comes across as self-regarding and politically dilettantish. An awkward sequence where Harriman reminds Martin Luther King III that he reposted one Harriman’s pictures and insists that he gets it up on his phone really should not have made the cut.

David Willoughby

Follow David on Bluesky @davidwilloughby.bsky.social