I am so pleased to share that Shining Lights has been named in a list of the best photo stories of 2024 by Another Magazine, in the category of Women-Led Projects. ‘In Shining Lights, Joy Gregory curates a compelling visual archive of Black-British womanhood during the 80s and 90s. This landmark series celebrates photographers who …
I’m overjoyed to announce that Shining Lights has won the Photography Catalog of the Year Award at the prestigious Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards! This recognition feels deeply meaningful, as it reflects the incredible journey this book has taken—rooted in collaboration, discovery, and a deep passion for storytelling through images and text. The awards celebrate …
I’m honoured to contribute to A Garden Manifesto, a thought-provoking publication exploring the transformative power of gardens edited by Olivia Laing and Richard Porter. This gem of a book gathers radical visions rooted in the earth from artists, writers, gardeners and activists, among them Lubaina Himid, Derek Jarman, Jamaica Kincaid, Ana Mendieta, Dan Pearson and …
This wonderful book by Bergit Arends connects photography, archives, ecology and historical change and critically applies the Anthropocene as a framework to the in-depth study of artists’ projects. It discards single modes of seeing environmental transformations in favour of a multiple and de-centred environmental imagination. Bergit Arends uses multidisciplinary perspectives to view localised environmental, social …
I am very proud to share that Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers In 1980s-90s Britain was a shortlisted selection in the Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards. It was amongst 122 books which were shortlisted in all categories, and will be on display throughout the festival (until the 29th September 24), in a venue dedicated to the …
Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain (2024) Publication Editor – Joy Gregory Associate Editor – Taous R Dahmani Co-published by Mack books and Autograph Spreads shown above include the work of Eileen Perrier, Suki Dhanda, Glynis Neslen and Sharron Wallace I am immensely proud to finally see my book, ‘Shining Lights,’ become a …
Uncovering Britain’s Groundbreaking Black-British Women Photographers Joy Gregory discusses her critical anthology Shining Lights, in which a constellation of rarely-seen stars finally take their rightful place Read full article here
The legacy of Black women photographers in 80s and 90s Britain A new book edited by Joy Gregory revisits pre-millennium Britain through the lens of 57 photographers, contextualised by illuminating essays and reflections Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain brings together work by an “important and long-overlooked generation of artists”, says editor Joy …
Join us to celebrate the launch of Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain, the first book dedicated to the Black female photographers and artists who shaped the cultural landscape of the UK at the time. We are delighted to have partnered with the independent arts publisher MACK, and artist Joy Gregory as editor …
Publication focuses on works by several artists taking memory and archive as their central theme. The work of mine contextualized by Marta Sesé is Old Clothes (2007-present) and Diary (2001-2006). “The photo album contains dimensions that reflect aspects closely linked to the person who makes it: the quality of the paper, the number of watermarks, …