‘Sheffield’s Africa’ responds to the attitude of 20th Century Britain towards the African diaspora. Photography.
Story: ‘'Sheffield’s Africa’ responds to the attitude of 20th Century Britain towards the African diaspora. Photography.
The recovery: Wemmy reflexively responded to articles written about people like us. She seeks to challenge the representation of Blackness in each one while capturing the hardships and joys of the people who came before her. Wemmy’s approach is playful, considered, rooted in her sense of self and always poetic.
Joe Philips is a steel worker in Sheffield who, in 1971, builds a boat that he hopes will take him back to Jamaica. Shadow puppets and film.
'Nigeria Says No' is inspired by a 1909 article lamenting the fact that colonial Britain couldn't get Ibadan in Nigeria to drink enough article, unlike it states it can in Barnsley. Photography.
‘Exposure’ is a reimagining of Eileen Binney, sister to boxing legend Albert Binney, living in Sheffield from the 1920s onwards. Photography.
