THE ‘FAM’ PROJECT

Our new and exciting half term workshop series, 'Fam', invited young people living in Lambeth aged 14 to 17 to create their own t-shirt design exploring what the word fam means to them. This was a fun way to explore how to build skills working with cameras, set design, portrait composition, studio lighting, T-shirt design and more.

The project ran for 11 days from Saturday 25th October to Sunday 31st October 2025, with daily sessions from 11-3PM.

All workshops were held in our studio and led by our Programming & Community Manager, D.Waife.

This workshop series has been designed to give priority to young people (14-17 years) living in low-income housing in Lambeth.

All 10 available spaces were free to those that meet these requirements.

Generously supported by The Walcot Foundation.

A person wearing a colorful North Face fleece jacket holding a vintage camera with a clear blue sky in the background. Overlay text promotes a free photography and T-shirt making workshop from October 25 to 31.

YOUNG CURATORS

A NEW PROGRAMMES DESIGNED TO DEVELOP A NEW GENERATION OF CURATORIAL TALENT

Person taking a selfie with a smartphone in a crowd.

Person holding a smartphone with a butterfly image on the screen against a red background.

A person painting the walls of a room with red paint, wearing a hoodie, brown pants, and protective shoe covers, using a roller brush. There are paint cans, rollers, and drop cloths on the floor.

A woman with dark hair in a bun smiling as she looks through the viewfinder of a vintage film camera.

Young Curators is a programme designed to open the resources of Photofusion to emerging young creatives from under-represented backgrounds. Each has a desire to pitch, develop, curate and install shows that speak to the concerns of their communities.

The project was developed and is run by D.Wiafe (Youth Engagement Manager). The programme has had two shows to date, BLK BXY JOY and SIXTEEN x S2AU, which were the most visited shows at Photofusion in their exhibition years.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT D.WIAFE@PHOTOFUSION.ORG

OUR EXHIBITIONS.

BLK BXY JOY, was an exhibition that celebrated a young generation of POC artists who are redefining the picture of the Black experience. The exhibition was curated by Destinie Paige, a London based filmmaker, photographer and set designer, who has been a long-term mentee in Photofusion’s young creatives programme.

For the exhibition, Paige drew together fourteen emerging artists whose work pictured new visions of black masculinity and femininity. Paige’s vision was to put a spotlight on unseen and under-represented artists who want to present a picture of the black experience that moves away from trauma.

A portrait of a young man wearing sunglasses and a white outfit, seated with one hand resting on his face, displayed on a large canvas in an art gallery with a red wall.

Artist working on a large black and white mural on a wall, standing on a yellow step ladder, with ceiling insulation visible above.

A figurine of a person with long, thick, orange braided hair, sitting in a crouched position, with arms wrapped around legs, on a black and white textured rock. The background shows blurred images of similar figurines or people, and a shelf with various objects.

A man and a woman are talking in an art gallery with red walls, with the woman looking attentive and the man smiling.

A man with braided hair leaning over a table examining a large photograph of a wooden house with trees in the background.

A woman with wavy, shoulder-length orange hair is looking to her left.

CURATED BY

Destinie Paige

FEATURED ARTISTS

Terna Jogo, Karis Beaumont, Ryan Prince, Joshua Odulate, Joel Claudio, Prince Oke, Cian Oba-Smith, Skye Patterson-Mann, Renee Maria Osubu, Tolu Elusadé, Mariana Dos Santos Pires, Kemka Ajoku, PJ Harper, Nico Froehlich

DATES

03 Feb - 03 March 2022

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

Shania Mae-Wright, Shannon Osbourne, Shakyrah Lodge, Shennel Kennedy, Rawanne Kourmaira

A large portrait photograph of a woman with dark skin, wearing jewelry and a white shirt, lying on a sandy beach surface with green grass, her eyes closed and one arm resting over her forehead.

SIXTEEN x S2AU

Sixteen was an ambitious project that brought together the work of 16 photographers whose portraits and interviews with British youth offer a glimpse of what it means to be sixteen years old in today’s fractured country. The exhibition at Photofusion was the culmination of its year long tour across Britain, visiting 15 cities and towns, from Shetland to Belfast, via Hull and Newlyn.

At Photofusion, the Sixteen project was turned over to Photofusion’s youth collective, Sorry 2 Annoy U (S2AU). They curated, programmed and planned the exhibition, including inviting local artists to respond to the themes addressed in the exhibition. This became Sixteen x S2AU

Sorry 2 Annoy U (S2AU) were a youth led collective based at Photofusion which aimed to create a space for young people to find a creative community whilst developing their skills as artists, curators and practitioners.

As young people growing up in London, they felt passionate about representing the identity of young people from all areas of society.