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Day 8 - Talk with Johny Pitts and Karen Alexander

Johny Pitts is a photographer, TV writer/presenter, founder of Afropean and published author. He won a Decibel Penguin Prize for new writers for a short story about his mixed race heritage. His photographs have appeared on the front covers of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Harvard University’s W.E.B DuBois Institute Transition magazine.

Pitts recently published a photo essay titled 'The Thames Path' (photo above) with Café Royal Books.

Presented by Curating Conversations 2015 in partnership with Autograph ABP. #CuratingConversations

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Day 7 -  Watershed and Spike Island visit (Bristol)

Today we toured the Watershed cinema and cultural centre, and the Spike Island artist studios. Presented by Curating Conversations 2015 in partnership with Autograph ABP. #CuratingConversations

Photo credit: @MaddyProst

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Day 6 - National Portrait Gallery

Today we toured the National Portrait Gallery with Helen Whiteoak who is Head of Participation. Presented by Curating Conversations 2015 in partnership with Autograph ABP. #CuratingConversations

Photo credit: @Vanessaptrsn

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Day 6 - Artist's Presentation : James Barnor

In the early 1950s, Barnor’s photographic studio Ever Young was visited by civil servants and dignitaries, performance artists and newly-weds. During this period, he captured intimate moments of luminaries such as Kwame Nkrumah as he pushed for pan-African unity, and commonwealth boxing champion Roy Ankrah. Barnor documents societies in transition: Ghana moving towards its independence, and London becoming a multicultural metropolis during the ‘swinging 60s’. His extensive portfolio of street and studio portraiture spans over 60 years and different continents, many commissioned by Drum magazine, Africa’s first Black politics and lifestyle publication.