In 1999 I was invited to speak about my work at Redeye in Manchester. The city has a special place in my heart as it is where I did my undergraduate degree and stayed during my first job at staffs Polytechnic in Stoke-on-Trent. It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since, but it has! Paul Herriman the …

I would like to invite you to my talk ‘Shining Lights: Black Women in Photography in the 1980s – 90s’  at the Autograph on 11th June, at 7pm. Using Maxine Walker’s exhibition at Autograph as a starting point I will highlight and celebrate the black women who were a driving force in independent UK photography throughout the 1980s and 90s and reflect …