Radical community photography in Hackney in the 80s. The Rio Tape/Slide Newsgroup was a community project in the 1980s that met in the basement of the Rio Cinema in Dalston, east London. It taught unemployed local young people photography and sound-recording skills and then sent them out to report on Hackney life; the resulting ‘newsreels’ were shown on screen at the Rio before the main feature. The slides were rediscovered in a battered filing cabinet in the Rio basement during renovation work in 2016: a treasure trove of radical community photography depicting protests and activism, street scenes, work, play and 80s Dalston style. The book also features oral histories from more than 25 people connected with the newsgroup, the Rio, or who appear in the photos – a time capsule from the radical past with a strong message about the value of community and protest.