Ajamu X - The Archivist 2025
Platinum print 10 x 8 inches , Edition 1/5
This image was first shown as part of the Exhibition Talisman by Cadion Arts. Cardion Arts is a not-for-profit organisation that champions LGBTQIA+ artists through a vibrant programme of exhibitions, performances, workshops and events.
My practice over the years have shifted to a debate on process and production as opposed to the overdetermination of identity-thinking and representation in the work of black queer photographers.
The image forms part of my on going intertest in early analogue printing processess , in particular the Platinum print and the Pictorialist movement. It shows various camera's I have either collected and/or worked with and sex objects which have appeared in my images on and off over the years. While objects have appeared in the work, this image will form part of my long interest in still life photography.
Ajamu X (FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist and archive curator. His practice places the sensual -material attributes of process and production at the centre of the work with a subject matter similarly focused on pleasure, intimacies and sensuality. He works with early analogue printing processes in particular the Platinum print. His studio-based constructed imagery privileges those tangible/tactile sensuous elements of a socially engaged photographic practice which literally/metaphorically rubs up against the flattening out of black queer photographic practices to simple and staid notions of identity – thinking, representation and a socio-political framing.
His work has been exhibited in many prestigious museums, galleries and alternative spaces worldwide. In 2022, he was canonised by The Trans Pennine Travelling Sisters as the Patron Saint of Darkrooms and received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society. Tate has recently published a monograph on his work as part of their Tate Photography Series April 2025.
His work sits within many private and public collections including: The Rose Art Museum, GOMA, Autograph, Tate Britain, Arts Council of England, The Walker Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Martin Parr Foundation.
Ajamu X - The Archivist 2025
Platinum print 10 x 8 inches , Edition 1/5
This image was first shown as part of the Exhibition Talisman by Cadion Arts. Cardion Arts is a not-for-profit organisation that champions LGBTQIA+ artists through a vibrant programme of exhibitions, performances, workshops and events.
My practice over the years have shifted to a debate on process and production as opposed to the overdetermination of identity-thinking and representation in the work of black queer photographers.
The image forms part of my on going intertest in early analogue printing processess , in particular the Platinum print and the Pictorialist movement. It shows various camera's I have either collected and/or worked with and sex objects which have appeared in my images on and off over the years. While objects have appeared in the work, this image will form part of my long interest in still life photography.
Ajamu X (FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist and archive curator. His practice places the sensual -material attributes of process and production at the centre of the work with a subject matter similarly focused on pleasure, intimacies and sensuality. He works with early analogue printing processes in particular the Platinum print. His studio-based constructed imagery privileges those tangible/tactile sensuous elements of a socially engaged photographic practice which literally/metaphorically rubs up against the flattening out of black queer photographic practices to simple and staid notions of identity – thinking, representation and a socio-political framing.
His work has been exhibited in many prestigious museums, galleries and alternative spaces worldwide. In 2022, he was canonised by The Trans Pennine Travelling Sisters as the Patron Saint of Darkrooms and received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society. Tate has recently published a monograph on his work as part of their Tate Photography Series April 2025.
His work sits within many private and public collections including: The Rose Art Museum, GOMA, Autograph, Tate Britain, Arts Council of England, The Walker Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Martin Parr Foundation.