Artist Interview / Corrine Noordenbos / Multistory

Corinne Noordenbos reflects on her Multistory commission Black Country Lungs, that tells the stories of people living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in the Black Country through photographs and first hand testimonies.
For her first ever UK commission, Corinne worked with us between June 2015 and May 2017 to research meet, observe, record and photograph people in hospital and in their homes. Corinne has a long-standing interest in exploring the human condition by photographing health issues so, when statistics showed that Sandwell and the Black Country had more health-related problems than other areas of the UK, she used this as a starting point. She says: “I decided to focus on COPD and lung problems. I was curious about the connection between the Black Country and ‘black lungs’”.
Multistory is supported by Sandwell Council and Arts Council England.
For more on the project: multistory.org.uk/project/black-country-lungs/