Photo by Lola Flash, 2019
Ajamu X
Ajamu is an acclaimed fine art studio based / darkroom led photographic artist and archive curator. His work, theoretical provocations, aesthetics unapologetically celebrate black queer bodies, the erotic, sex, desire, and the politics of pleasure. His black and white images also pose the imagination, fiction, and play in opposition to constant framing of our black queer bodies and nuanced lived experiences from within a sociological framework.
His work has been shown in many prestigious museums , galleries and alternative spaces around the world and has been published in wide variety of publications and critical journals.
In 2022 Ajamu was canonised by The Trans Pennine Traveling Sisters as the Patron Saint of Darkrooms in his hometown Huddersfield and received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.
Website: www.ajamu-studios.com
IG: ajamustudios