Stephanie Comilang’s solo exhibition, Search for Life, at TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art in Madrid, Spain, offers a visual representation of migration through film and textile installations. The exhibition’s title was inspired by Dirty Projectors’ song of the same name, which sparked Comilang’s thought of how a butterfly might put together a song. This butterfly perspective…
I was interviewing my friend Rav Gill for my first documentary, Zimmers of Southall. At the end of the interview, I mentioned that I wanted to come back and take some more photos as the project would eventually become a photobook. Rav responded by saying, “We’re gonna be busy as my brother’s getting married in a few…
Calum Jacobs is best known for his seminal work on the importance of Black footballers and Black culture in the evolution of modern football: through his magazine, Caricom, and debut book A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game, Jacobs has upended stereotypes, spoken for a generation, and written into history the significance…
Offering a glimpse into the process of curating an exhibition, curators Katherine Finerty, Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson and Nuna Adisenu-Doe, take us on a meandering journey that explores the dialogue between London and Accra’s creative ecosystems. Constellations is a sister-city research and exhibition project taking its point of departure from the exchange between Gallery 1957’s…
The low resolution and opacity of Nigerian American artist Osadolor’s audiovisual work provide Blackqueer folks the agency to roam and remain pixelated, shaky, blurry, glitchy, noisy, distorted, and elusive through the messy flux of self-realisation. Osadolor’s multidisciplinary practice proposes Afropresentist modes to reimagine the self, community, and our relationship with cultural memory, the everyday present,…
Nigerian photographer, writer, and filmmaker, Wami Aluko’s practice explores mythology, biology, and mysticism. A graduate of Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, Aluko’s visceral images — exhibited in Europe, Africa and the US, and appearing in publications including Atmos, Vogue Italia, and Wallpaper* — evocatively blur the lines between the physical and spiritual. In an…
Mingei, the influential folk-craft movement that developed in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, is the subject of William Morris Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, Art Without Heroes: Mingei. With more than 80 works on display — including ceramics, woodwork, paper, textiles, photography and film — the presentation will incorporate unseen pieces from significant private collections, along…
In 2016 I lived in Portugal for a couple of years. Porto is a small, very walkable city so that’s what I always did: walked everywhere, camera in hand, always, and I was probably taking 20 plus photos a day. Portugal is a great country for street photographers, and when I lived there the country was changing…