Since 1989 Stuart Roy Clarke has been photographing the changing face of football across the UK and beyond and has amassed an enormous archive of photos, which from May will find a permanent home at the National Football Museum in Manchester. I’m working with Stuart and my team of young filmmakers at Northern Stars to create a new piece of work that will play in the gallery during the exhibition. It’ll be made up of archive video from the last fifteen years - my first professional commission for a broadcaster was to make a profile of him in 1996 - as well as new material. And going by the image above, he’s trying to qualify for my Looking After Elvis project…

Since 1989 Stuart Roy Clarke has been photographing the changing face of football across the UK and beyond and has amassed an enormous archive of photos, which from May will find a permanent home at the National Football Museum in Manchester. I’m working with Stuart and my team of young filmmakers at Northern Stars to create a new piece of work that will play in the gallery during the exhibition. It’ll be made up of archive video from the last fifteen years - my first professional commission for a broadcaster was to make a profile of him in 1996 - as well as new material. And going by the image above, he’s trying to qualify for my Looking After Elvis project…