We are grateful to the artists and photographers included here who have helped us create a New Year’s greeting card to the Independent’s readers. We are grateful to the artists and photographers included here, who have helped us create a New Year’s greeting card to the Independent’s readers. We proposed the theme “What’s past is prologue.” The phrase is from Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 2, Scene I. How does everything that has happened this year set the stage for our own destinies? —The editors.
Listen to Eleanor and Teddy in their own words: