Ian Francis

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Ian Francis from Balsall Heath

Ian runs Birmingham’s Flatpack Festival which is held in venues across the city every March. Ian also has a fascination with the overlaps between film and photography - particularly before and during the birth of cinema, through devices like the magic lantern, the zoetrope, the mutoscope and flip-book (which was patented in Birmingham).

He has used the library for local studies work as he has put together walking tours about Birmingham's hidden history.

Read about the Faces of the Library of Birmingham

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