Home is Not a Place at The Photographers’ Gallery, Oxford Circus
In 2021, photographer and writer Johny Pitts, and poet Roger Robinson travelled around the British coast in search of an answer to the question What is Black Britain?
Their collaboration became Home is Not a Place which has now arrived at The Photographers’ Gallery in Ramillies Street, Oxford Circus.
Travelling in a red Mini Cooper, the two men traced the British coast line and dipped into urban, rural and suburban Britain.
They travelled to document and respond to the many manifestations of black British culture, and to present an alternative to media narratives.
In the exhibition and accompanying book Mr Robinson’s poetry sits alongside Mr Pitts’ images from around the
country.
Born in Sheffield, Johny Pitts is a self-taught photographer, writer and broadcaster.
The founder of the online journal and author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, Mr Pitts spent more than a decade documenting the black experience in Europe.
The show’s title comes from a quote by American writer James Baldwin “perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition”.
The exhibition runs until September 24.
www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/johny-pitts-home-not-place
Picture: Home is not a place Picture: Johnny Pitts, The Photographers Gallery
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