Pitts’ photographs in this space are also accompanied by the poem, Home Is Not A Place, by Roger Robinson. The structures we often find ourselves in when we are “at home” aren’t what make home home, it’s how we feel when we are there that make it so. Come on a journey with Johny Pitts as he talks about a selection of photographs in the exhibition Home is Not a Place. The prose of the poetry telling stories never heard of places, some assumed to be all white and the people that live there.

Too often, that is where the history told about Black Britain begins and ends - but Robinson and Pitts continued out of London, following the coast clockwise through Margate to Land's End, Bristol to Blackpool, Glasgow to John O'Groats and Scarborough to Southend on Sea. A free country needs a free press, and the newspapers of our country are under significant financial pressure”. This beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking fusion of poetry and photography offers us layers of society, the self, the subconscious and Britishness from a Black perspective. Find your true home, build your life around it and don’t settle for anything less than the life you feel you were meant to live.Home is where we are able to thrive, without the pressure to, in fact, home is a gentle voice saying, “Take your time, no pressure.

He is lead vocalist and lyricist for King Midas Sound and has also recorded solo albums with Jahtari Records. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. He has been commissioned by The National Trust, London Open House, BBC, National Portrait Gallery and Theatre Royal Stratford East (where he was also Associate Artist).Travelling in a red Mini Cooper, Pitts and Robinson’s circumnavigation encompassed the coastal, urban, rural and suburban, via the places in-between. The front and middle rooms of the gallery evoke the feeling of an open plan, communal area, bright and convivial, offering a space to chat and share ideas. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. The Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship is a collaboration between The Ampersand Foundation and Photoworks, supported by Arts Council England. In 2020 the book won the Jhalak Prize and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing and is the recipient of the 2021 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding.

The book Home is Not a Place, which combines Pitts' photographs with poems by Roger Robinson, was published by Harper Collins UK in September 2022. Pitt's photos capture the beauty of Black British culture ' Dazed - Praise for Afropean by Johny Pitts Winner of the Jhalak Prize 'A revelation' Owen Jones 'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical' Afua Hirsch A Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019 - Praise for A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson WINNER OF THE TS ELIOT POETRY PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020 'Ranging from the most breath-taking poems about the Grenfell Tower fire to the most exquisitely moving poems about the premature birth of his son, who had to fight for his life in an incubator. Home is the families we are born into, and those we create for ourselves, be they by heart or by blood. We are home to groundbreaking ideas and revolutions, we are home to comfort and peace — be it other people’s or our own.

Robinson's words are as careful as they are masterful ; Pitt's casual gaze is warm and conversational. Home could be a lone beach in the middle of nowhere, or a sun you’ve watched set over the same horizon all your life.

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. As soon as feelings of anxiety, worry, anger, frustration, disappointment or discomfort enter the scene, it tells me that my spirit may be trying to communicate with me. It’s important to be aware of how you are feeling and how your emotions shift in different environments.The sound in this space comes from 1990s mixtapes recorded from the Black-run Sheffield pirate radio station SCR. Evocative mix of candid shots and poetry that capture the Black British experience and what the coast can mean as a boundary for identity and for exclusion. And that was solidified tonight as I watched an amazing Florida sunset light the sky on fire with yellow, pink and purple.