Ajamu is a fine art photographic artist, scholar, archive curator and radical sex activist with a 25+ year track record of exhibiting in museums, galleries and alternative spaces worldwide. He is the co-founder of the award winning rukus! Federation, the rukus! Black LGBTQ Archive, and is a leading specialist on Black queer history, heritage and cultural memory in the UK.
His philosophical-political-aesthetic includes portraiture/studio-based constructed imagery, early analogue printing processes and large format photography, which unapologetically celebrates Black queer bodies, the erotic sense[s], desire, pleasure as activism and difference. He recently made history by showing the first erect penis on British terrestrial TV in the documentary, Me and My Penis.
The Nomadic Archivists Project (NAP) is seeking submissions for The Evidence: Black Archivists Holding Memory, an anthology exploring the archival experience across Africa and the African Diaspora. We understand that the global Black archival experience is a complex one and converging over time, space, and memory. We acknowledge and affirm archiving our stories is a cultural and political act. Learn more about the project here.
Music by Sean Bempong.
