Sam Taylor-Johnson during filming of Back To Black with actor Eddie Marsan

THIS week, for only the second time in our newspaper’s 42-year history, we have a guest editor in the hot seat.

Sam Taylor-Johnson, the director of the new Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black, has worked with our team to choose what she thinks should go into today’s edition.

The former Primrose Hill resident knows Camden well and follows Madness frontman Suggs’ turn in the editor’s chair back in 2021 and has been working with our reporters on several stories.

She has blazed a trail through both the worlds of art and film, and was one of the wave of 1980s and 1990s art graduates who were dubbed the YBA (Young British Artists) and brought new vigour and creativity to the fore. A Goldsmith’s University student, she focused on photography and video works.

Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1998, she also scooped an award for the Most Promising Young Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. Her work has always been accessible: in 2000, Selfridges commissioned a gigantic photo frieze to use to cover scaffolding when their Oxford Street HQ was being restored. Sam chose images of 21 cultural icons that included Elton John and Richard E Grant.

Other pieces include a video of David Beckham asleep, which was simply called David and was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery. Another career-defining work include a ground­breaking collection of portraits of instantly recognisable men – all sobbing away as they pose for her.

She moved to the big screen in 2009, with her critically acclaimed feature Nowhere Boy, about the youth of John Lennon, and she has continued to combine film making and fine art still photography.

Now, she can add newspaper editor to that CV.