John Berger From Life
Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to his birthplace, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland and France. Sometimes, while cataloguing this, Tom would email John about a piece of work. Then there'd come a call: 'This is John. John Berger. Can I tell you a story?' Tom realised he was bringing this archive back into John's life, resurrecting his memories. And then, at the beginning of 2017, John died.