The Workers Film & Photo League (WFPL) was a group of radical amateur filmmakers and photographers, active in East London during the 1930s. Their films offer a unique picture of working class lives, resonating strongly with today’s concerns of food poverty, work precarity and the cost of living crisis.

The Film & Photo League Archive was created in 2019 to preserve rediscovered documents, film and photographs relating to the original group. The aim of the project is to examine the work of the WFPL in the wider context of the interwar Workers Film and Photography movement, identify the legacy of Workers FIlm and Photography in contemporary forms of creative practice and investigate the potential of radical archival collections to allow for the ‘expression, exhibition, documentation and preservation of a sentiment or movement in a particular community’ (Rhodes 2014).