- 5 October 2024
- 10:30 – 8:00 pm
- Hochhauser Lecture Theatre, V&A
- South Kensington, V&A Museum
Shining Lights is the first critical anthology to bring together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked chapter of photographic history. Seen through the lens of Britain’s sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both lived experience and historical investigation to explore the communities, experiments, collaborations and complexities that defined the decades.
This symposium, hosted by Shining Lights’ editor and artist Joy Gregory, provides an opportunity to further examine and debate the issues raised in the book, through the voices of the publication’s contributors and leading intergenerational thinkers.
Join us to celebrate this timely and important publication and foreground the contribution of Black women photographers to the history of the artistic medium.
Confirmed participants: Christine Checinska, Poulomi Desai, Bernardine Evaristo, Lola Flash, Mumtaz Karimjee (virtually), Roshi Naidoo, Symrath Patti, Eileen Perrier, Lola Olufemi.
Produced in partnership with the V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, Fast Forward: Women in Photography at University for the Creative Arts and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
The publication is co-published by MACK & Autograph ABP. With thanks to Joy Gregory Studio.