Applications are now open for next year’s Fresh Ink Festival, offering seven commission opportunities for writers with a meaningful connection to Hull.

ARTIST FEATURE: Mr Joe Johnson - Mr Joe, AKA Joe Johnson is an Imaginarium artist from East Hull. You’ll usually find him swiggin’ Guinness through a straw outside of Dive, when he’s not pushing buttons at his day job at Siemens.

‘A view of Hull through the lens of International Exchange Student Albaraa Almasari’ Sometimes, a photo appears on your Insta explore page and stops you in your tracks: the composition, the unusual perspective, the evocation of a specific moment forever captured in time.

What happens when a city is forced in to playing by the rules of a subculture it barely understands?