Photo of Sean O’Hagan
Sean O’Hagan

Feature Writer

Photo of Sean O’Hagan

Sean O’Hagan

Feature Writer

  • Sean O’Hagan
    Facing the truth about apartheid

    Can we ever combine justice with forgiveness?

    Fri, 24 Oct 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    Tangled up in Bob Dylan

    In a quest to discover if Bob Dylan is his father, Sam Sussman’s Boy from the North Country reimagines his late mother’s affair with the musician

    Sat, 18 Oct 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    Peter Doig: ‘I’ve never felt the need to cash in on my success’

    His paintings have fetched the highest prices for a living artist. But as Doig explains, his new show at London’s Serpentine Gallery is more about the music

    Thu, 9 Oct 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    Warren Ellis: ‘I almost got killed by a falling coconut’

    Nick Cave’s chief collaborator – and sartorial twin – in the Bad Seeds has found fresh purpose at an Indonesian animal sanctuary

    Thu, 18 Sept 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    How Colonel Tom Parker made Elvis a superstar

    A new biography suggests the relationship between Elvis Presley and his maligned manager is ripe for reappraisal

    Thu, 7 Aug 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    The new faces of protest

    Misan Harriman’s street portraits debunk the idea that today’s youth are less politically active than previous generations

    Sat, 2 Aug 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    Paz Errázuriz’s portraits of life on the margins

    The 81-year-old’s transgressive photos of sex workers, trans people and the elderly in Pinochet’s traumatised Chile go on display in her first UK solo show

    Fri, 18 Jul 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    How George Platt Lynes shaped queer photography

    Seventy years after his death, the larger-than-life American photographer – who gave an intimate glimpse into New York’s gay scene in the 1930s and 40s – is finally undergoing a reappraisal

    Fri, 11 Jul 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    Marley and me: ‘I had initiative – and Bob sensed that’

    As a teenager, Dennis Morris was invited to take pictures of Bob Marley. The photographer never looked back

    Fri, 27 Jun 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    From the archive: Brian Wilson on his legacy

    Earlier this week, Brian Wilson, the musical genius behind the Beach Boys, died at the age of 82. In tribute, we present an interview he gave Sean O’Hagan in 2002, in which he discussed his struggles with drugs and his mental health, as well as his recording legacy

    Fri, 13 Jun 2025

  • Sean O’Hagan
    At 65, Bono is choosing music over activism

    Has Bono’s activism been at the expense of his art? How has a brush with death changed him? And what does a friend of George W Bush make of Trump? The U2 singer tells all

    Sat, 10 May 2025

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