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Power & Glory Black History Month photography exhibition

Where: Brady Arts Centre, 192-196 Hanbury Street, London E1 5HU
When: Monday to Friday, 9am-7pm, Saturday, 10am-4pm 

Preview: Thursday 6 October 2022, 6-8pm
Price: Free

Alternative Arts presents a collection of the most dynamic and diverse contemporary black photographers. They explore history and identity with a series of stunning images inspired by:

  • courage
  • carnival
  • gender equality
  • climate change
  • survival and freedom

The show is a celebration of black culture, demonstrating new perspectives in photography.

Photographers

  • Kenny Alabi expresses her view of being an identical twin.
  • Fatima Ali presents multiple images of her hands.
  • Asiko explores the history and cultural meaning of African hairstyles.
  • Chris Batantu sees the world through various frames, built from a difficult upbringing.
  • Rio Blake reflects real London culture in a cinematic, intimate style.
  • Samantha Brown overlays images of water with text surrounding the history of enslavement trade routes.
  • Raymond Daley captures the Child Q protest held in Hackney.
  • George Dyer features a series of stamps on which young black men are adorned with crowns.
  • Jacqui Ennis Cole shows portraits of Mary who endures living with sickle cell anemia.
  • Tzion Essel describes Melancholy as the driving force behind her work.
  • Marlan Henry observes real black fathers and children in their everyday lives.
  • Elsie Kibue-Ngare wraps herself in a Khanga-Leso to reconnect with her Kenyan roots.
  • Wamaitha Ng’ang’a questions how climate change will affect women in rural areas of the global south.
  • Angela Ogunfojuri explores the hypermasculinity of black men without space to express their softer side.
  • Olufemi Olaiya sheds light on the contributions & accomplishments of refugees in the UK.
  • Keleenna Onyeaka examines the idea of Indigo as a colour which exemplifies black dignity.
  • Dola Posh looks at the delicate, life-changing experience of being a new mother.
  • Shainy Vilo celebrates the identity of a genderqueer person of both Afro-Latin and Asian descent.

Power & Glory

1 of 18
ALABI KENNY - Kehinde + Taiwo
2 of 18
ANGELA OGUNFOJURI - 'Dual 1'
3 of 18
ASIKO - Yoruba 3
4 of 18
CHRIS BATANTU - Story of Darkwaah
5 of 18
DOLA POSH - Self Portrait of a black Mother
6 of 18
ELSIE KIBUE-NIGARE - Untitled #16
7 of 18
FATIMA ALI
8 of 18
GEORGE DYER - Royal Male
9 of 18
JACQUELINE ENNIS COLE - Scars Series
10 of 18
KELEENNA ONYEAKA - She posed for Indigo
11 of 18
MARLAN HENRY - Warmth - Father & Son
12 of 18
OLUFEMI OLAIYA - Adenas Brothers
13 of 18
RAYMOND DALEY - Communitas
14 of 18
RIO BLAKE - Black Lives Matter
15 of 18
SAMANTHA BROWN - middle passage
16 of 18
SHAINY VILO - Jules 2021
17 of 18
TZION ESSEL - Ivy
18 of 18
WAMAITHA NG'ANG'A - Tafakari II-IV

ALABI KENNY - Kehinde + Taiwo
ANGELA OGUNFOJURI - 'Dual 1'
ASIKO - Yoruba 3
CHRIS BATANTU - Story of Darkwaah
DOLA POSH - Self Portrait of a black Mother
ELSIE KIBUE-NIGARE - Untitled #16
FATIMA ALI
GEORGE DYER - Royal Male
JACQUELINE ENNIS COLE - Scars Series
KELEENNA ONYEAKA - She posed for Indigo
MARLAN HENRY - Warmth - Father & Son
OLUFEMI OLAIYA - Adenas Brothers
RAYMOND DALEY - Communitas
RIO BLAKE - Black Lives Matter
SAMANTHA BROWN - middle passage
SHAINY VILO - Jules 2021
TZION ESSEL - Ivy
WAMAITHA NG'ANG'A - Tafakari II-IV

Contact

Curated by Sarah Ainslie and Maggie Pinhorn

The exhibition will also be launched online

For further information and images contact info@alternativearts.co.uk