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Newsletter #1

February 05, 2020
I'm pleased to share a number of works currently in development:Please click on the fullscreen icon to see in more detail. ›
Newsletter #1

Ernest Cole

December 29, 2019
"Ernest Cole's photographs of apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s document a brutal reality of the country's storied history. Issues of race, repression, representation and resistance... ›
Ernest Cole

Seasons Greetings

December 21, 2019
I'm wishing you all happy holidays and a happy and prosperous New Year. ›
Seasons Greetings

Contact Sheet

September 30, 2019
It was great to arrive home and find my copy of Contact Sheet waiting for me. I'm grateful to @autographabp and @lightworkorg for this fantastic opportunity to be in the company of such great... ›
Contact Sheet

Climate Strike - Montreal

September 28, 2019
As a self-declared cynical and jaded type, it was great, nonetheless, to experience the sight of 500,000 people, mainly young activists, taking to the streets of Montreal on Friday, during the... ›
Climate Strike - Montreal

UK Government Art Collection Acquisition

August 23, 2019
I'm really pleased to announce that works from the 'From a Small Island' series have been acquired by the Government Art Collection. I'd like to thank @lightworkorg / @Autographabp in assisting in... ›
UK Government Art Collection Acquisition

APLH

July 11, 2019
Please follow the link to my new online work Another Place Like Home: anotherplacelikehome.com It's an ongoing participatory work which explores notions of belong.  ›
APLH

Living Memory Project Commission

July 11, 2019
I'm really pleased to get to work with the outstanding Sandwell Community History and Archives Service in my latest commission by the Living Memory Project. ›
Living Memory Project Commission

PhotoForum UK Talk

July 11, 2019
PhotoForum UK Talk

Good Photographs...

May 22, 2019
New Writing: "Good Photographs: The white male gaze and how we privilege ways of seeing" Co-authored with @Photoethicscentre Click here to read:  ›
Good Photographs...

The Reveal

February 14, 2019
It took me about ten years after being on Twitter, before I finally put up a profile photo of myself, next to my bio. While some people may have wished I never had, my self-censoring, wasn't... ›
The Reveal

Come to Selfhood - Joshua Rashaad McFadden

February 01, 2019
In “Come to Selfhood”, Joshua Rashaad McFadden creates a moving record of young African-American men as they reveal how their lives have been defined by race and gender. We connect with the... ›
Come to Selfhood - Joshua Rashaad McFadden

Blast Festival - 24th May to 29th June

January 26, 2019
I'm really pleased to be exhibiting my new work 'Another Place Like Home' at the forthcoming Blast Festival later this year. 24 MAY - 29 JUNE 2019 Blast! is a festival of photography, talks and... ›
Blast Festival - 24th May to 29th June

Dawoud Bey

January 16, 2019
"On 15 September 1963, the Ku Klux Klan planted dynamite in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, a church that previously had been the headquarters for Martin... ›
Dawoud Bey

Colour film was built for white people. Here's what it did to dark skin.

December 02, 2018
Fom Vox For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply weren't adequate to capture a diversity of darker skin tones. And the... ›
Colour film was built for white people. Here's what it did to dark skin.

Sonia Boyce - Gathering a History of Black Women | TateShots

December 02, 2018
Highlighting questions around race and cultural difference, Sonia Boyce conveys political messages focusing on black representation and perceptions of the black body through her art. The artist... ›
Sonia Boyce - Gathering a History of Black Women | TateShots

The Ornament

April 29, 2018
My mother tells me that she bought this ornament when she was pregnant with my older sister Bev. She saw it as she walked through the Fountain Arcade in Dudley, and knew that she had to have it. ... ›
The Ornament

Uber Alles

April 28, 2018
I'm interested in what is found at the end of the journey for all of those who of the African Diaspora. Before the Western powers carved up Africa in 1885 at the Berlin Conference, creating the ... ›
Uber Alles

Holding onto something slipping away: the work of Paddy Summerfield

April 28, 2018
"...I wanted to hold onto something slipping away..." Paddy Summerfield   Perhaps this is the same reason why I have photographed my own parents too, over the years, for the work in my current... ›
Holding onto something slipping away: the work of Paddy Summerfield

The Ship

April 27, 2018
This is the Ship which brought my mother to England - the T/V Irpinia. It took her from the sun of Kingston to a wintery Plymouth in February 1956. Made in 1929, by Swan Hunter on the River Tyne,... ›
The Ship

Stuart Hall in conversation with CLR James

April 26, 2018
In Beyond a Boundary, James explored a generous conception of “the political” through a lens fashioned by cultural historians and social theorists. For a number of reasons, cricket became the... ›
Stuart Hall in conversation with CLR James

Beyond the Windrush

April 23, 2018
Belong - verb  - 1.  be a member of (a particular group or organization).synonyms: be a member of, be in, be included in, be affiliated to, be allied to, be associated with,   All are welcome to... ›
Beyond the Windrush

BLOOD AND FIRE - JAMAICAN POLITICAL HISTORY

April 10, 2018
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BLOOD AND FIRE - JAMAICAN POLITICAL HISTORY

How art gives shape to cultural change

March 17, 2018
Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their... ›
How art gives shape to cultural change

America's Secret Housing History of Segregation

March 13, 2018
  "In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America's housing stock. Author Richard Rothstein says the... ›
America's Secret Housing History of Segregation

Imagine If This Were You

March 11, 2018
"Visual artist Carrie Mae Weems offers a portal into the anti-Black violence of our moment with Imagine If This Were You (2016)". Mark Anthony Neal  ›
Imagine If This Were You

Deborah Willis: "Visualizing the Black Body in Photography and Popular Culture"

March 11, 2018
Images of the black subject, whether artistic, documentary, or anthropological, are forever fixed in the popular imagination through photography. Today, many black photographers working all over... ›
Deborah Willis: "Visualizing the Black Body in Photography and Popular Culture"

Light Work

March 10, 2018
I'm so proud to have become an alumnus of the Autograph ABP 2018 / Light Work Artist In residency program in Syracuse New York.  It was an intense and thought-provoking month that enabled me to... ›
Light Work

PhotoCafe Social Evening - March 14th

March 10, 2018
After many great speakers, we'd like to invite you to our first Social Evening of the year.Join us for a drink at 1000 Trades, bring along your work in progress and let's talk about ideas,... ›
PhotoCafe Social Evening - March 14th

Rest in Peace...

January 19, 2018
Rest in Peace Grizzley. I had the great pleasure of meeting and photographing Steve 'Grizzly' Nesbitt several years ago for a commission exploring reggae music in Birmingham. He was a gentleman... ›
Rest in Peace...

Photo-Social Meet Up - 13th December

December 04, 2017
On the one year anniversary of Photocafe we invite everyone interested in photography to our pre-Christmas social event at, 1000 Trades on December 13th, for a few drinks and a conversation about... ›
Photo-Social Meet Up - 13th December

Lou Draper

November 20, 2017
"In 1973, a small band of black artists published a book that changed the history of photography in America. The Black Photographers Annual [BPA], Volume I, presented the work of nearly 50... ›
Lou Draper

Mark Bradford: Tomorrow is Another Day

November 19, 2017
"Virtual Tour of Mark Bradford’s exhibition “Tomorrow is Another Day” for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2017. Tomorrow Is Another Day presents new work by Mark Bradford as the... ›
Mark Bradford: Tomorrow is Another Day

You see what you want to see

November 18, 2017
Bayeté Ross Smith has faced discrimination throughout his life. He turned that frustration to media, creating projects that explore how image shapes our perception of people, in an attempt to... ›
You see what you want to see

The Solitude of Ravens - Masahisa Fukase: the best photobook of the past 25 years?

November 17, 2017
"In 1975, on a journey from Tokyo to Hokkaido, his hometown, Masahisa Fukase began to photograph the ravens he saw from the train window. Alighting at stations along the way, he captured the birds... ›
The Solitude of Ravens - Masahisa Fukase: the best photobook of the past 25 years?

Invisible Britain

November 17, 2017
I'm really happy to be a part of this upcoming and timely book by Paul Sng that needs your support.  Invisible Britain: Portraits of the Disenfranchised is a forthcoming ethnographic photography... ›
Invisible Britain

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November 16, 2017
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...words don't belong to everyone...

November 15, 2017
"To be black is to walk through the world watching people do things that you cannot do" On the launch of his new book, We Were Eight Years In Power Ta-Nehisi Coates answers an audience question... ›
...words don't belong to everyone...

Carrie Mae Weens

November 12, 2017
Artist Carrie Mae Weems has used photography to explore national and personal history, using herself and her family as stand-ins to explore common narratives, and using the medium as a tool to... ›
Carrie Mae Weens

How I Got over: Vision and Justice in Racialised America

November 12, 2017
Photographers LaToya Ruby Frazier, Carrie Mae Weems and Harvard University art Professor Sarah Lewis discuss what it means to be American and Black during this dichotomous time of tragedy and... ›
How I Got over: Vision and Justice in Racialised America

Waiting for you...

November 10, 2017
Abu Omar is Waiting For You* is a Wellcome Trust funded project by artist Afshin Dehkordi exploring how threat and loss (including loss of social meaning) arising from migration and displacement... ›
Waiting for you...

Racecraft: Barbara Fields & Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation

November 08, 2017
Barbara Fields, professor of history at Columbia University, discusses her new book Racecraft—and the persistent illusions of a post-racial America—with the Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates. As Barack... ›
Racecraft: Barbara Fields & Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation

Looking Into Jamaica and Montreal

November 08, 2017
For another recent feature on my work please click the link here ›
Looking Into Jamaica and Montreal

Guest Writer...

November 07, 2017
I'm really happy to be the guest writer on BILD today. BILD is a critical sociolinguistic research community that focuses on Belonging, Identity, Language and Diversity at Concordia University in... ›
Guest Writer...

Five American Artists

November 01, 2017
Short documentary sketches of five African American artists: Barbara Chase Riboud, Charles White, Romare Bearden, Richard Hunt, and Betty Blayton.    ›
Five American Artists

Photocafe - November 8th

November 01, 2017
The next PHOTOCAFE will take place on Wednesday 8th November '17 from 7pm at 1000 Trades Bar and Kitchen in Birmingham.  ›
Photocafe - November 8th

How Did "Cities" Become So Racialised?

October 30, 2017
William Goldsmith, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, discusses his new book "Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America"    ›
How Did "Cities" Become So Racialised?

The Floating Signifier

October 23, 2017
"Race is a signifier which can be linked to other signifiers in a representation. Its meaning is relational and it is constantly subject to redefinition in different cultures, different moments.... ›
The Floating Signifier

Autograph ABP / Light Works Residency

October 09, 2017
I'm really pleased to announce that I have been selected to be the 2018 Autograph ABP nominee for the New York based Light Works Residency.  It's a great honour and privilege to be selected; I'm... ›
Autograph ABP / Light Works Residency

Out of the frying pan...into the fire...

September 25, 2017
In light of The Guardian's recent feature, describing that, "Barely 3% of Britain’s most powerful and influential people are from black and minority ethnic groups..[highlighting] startling... ›
Out of the frying pan...into the fire...