Coinciding with a special archive display of the renowned photography journal, this panel discussion featuring Gilane Tawadros, Derek Bishton and Darryl Georgiou, and moderated by David A. Bailey, will delve into the legacy and impact of Ten.8.
Together they will reflect on how the journal challenged dominant narratives and was a platform for diasporic perspectives, significantly shifting photography and cultural discourse in the UK.
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David A. Bailey MBE is a photographer, writer, curator, lecturer and cultural facilitator who lives and works in London. David’s practice is focused on issues that relate to black representation in art. There interests have informed his appointment as an advisor and subsequent curator with Autograph (ABP) and the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) in 1994. He co-curated the groundbreaking exhibitions Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance with Richard J. Powell at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1997, and Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary with Petrine Archer-Straw and Richard J. Powell at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in 2005.
Since 2006 David has been overseeing the growth and development of the International Curators Forum as its co-founder and currently as its Artistic Director
Derek Bishton is an English journalist, writer and photographer. After periods working on regional newspapers, and as a publicist for the Birmingham Arts Lab, he co-founded a community design and photographic agency in Handsworth where the photographic magazine Ten.8 originated in 1978. It was published from Birmingham until 1992. He is currently working on a book about his work in Handsworth during the 70s and 80s.
Darryl Georgiou is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, exhibiting internationally and working across a range of media. He is currently working on a number of arts and socially engaged projects often exploring identity and cultural memory. He is also working on a photographic archive of his early documentary images of Handsworth during the 80s and 90s. As well as being a Ten.8 Director he was a picture editor and exhibitions manager of Ten.8 Touring.
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