Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain London

Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain LondonMACK 2024 Joy Gregory (ed.) 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 Britains sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both lived experience and historical investigation to explore

the long-term project

100 images

Still surrounded by the animals and rural settings of their childhood

This first edition

writing in 1000words magazine

shadowed him from the fall of 1966 to the spring of 1967

community groups

and everything coalesces

Paperback with PVC jacket

rather than approximate colour from nearby pixels

the Atlantic in the West

His work is now beginning to be widely exhibited internationally and he is viewed as one of the most interesting of a new generation of image makers working within photography