The talk looks at the historic and social change in the visual arts and ways of representing stories. It shows the links between art and culture- affecting social and behavioural change-worldwide. Starting at the year 1989 when the shape of Europe was to experience massive social and political change. As the Berlin Wall fell, heralding the beginning of the end for Communist countries first in East Germany and then like dominoes through the Eastern Bloc and the USSR. Reporting of those momentous events changed too. How did we see and hear the stories of the people from formerly closed Communist countries? The technological revolution came in the shape of the domestic video camera- easy to hide and easy for journalists to bring live pictures to accompany their words. Videojournalism was born and since that day how we learn about world events is now image-led .The democratisation of news, citizen journalism and political action, plus influencing, commenting and contributing to social debate is a result of mobiles with cameras. Allowing for peoples’ testimonies, their stories to reach global audiences. For us as audiences to understand this new video revolution- as important as the advent of the internet.