Exhibition Tour | Ten-8 in Focus: the legacy of Black Image and Body Politics

06:30pm - 07:15pm, Thu 09 Jan 2025

A short introduction to the exhibition with Joanna Risvik from International Curators Forum

Photograph of an exhibition featuring text and photographs on the walls.

Exhibition Tour | Ten-8 in Focus: the legacy of Black Image and Body Politics

6:30pm, Thu 09 Jan 2025

A short introduction to the exhibition with Joanna Risvik from International Curators Forum

Find out more about this exhibition focusing on two editions of the influential photography journal Ten.8, Black Image (1984) and Body Politics (1987), both produced in collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery. Alongside material from the Gallery's archive, Ten.8 in Focus illustrates how the journal explored the importance of photography and how images are inscribed with meaning.

Ten.8 in Focus is a snapshot of the dynamic and diverse ways Ten.8 explored ideas around power, representation, race and photography, which are all still relevant today. By the time of the last edition, Critical Decade, in 1992, Ten.8 had become an internationally acclaimed journal and an influential meeting point for socially concerned creatives and Black Diasporic artists and writers.

The tour is led by Joanna Risvik.

Joanna Risvik is a Venezuelan-Norwegian arts administrator based in London and Project Manager Assistant with the International Curators Forum (ICF). She holds an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Liberal Arts from Amsterdam University College, with a focus on visual cultural studies and organisational practices in the arts.

Explore the Archive: Ten.8 Collection

Delve into archival material of Staying On (1984), Home Front (1984) and Body Politic (1987), which are all featured in the current show Ten.8 in Focus: The legacy of Black Image and Body Politics. 

View Ten.8 Collection