Johny Pitts

B-Side/The Eyes #12

25,00 €

2021

Format 17x24 cm

240 pages

English

979-10-92727-47-0

Présentation

This 12th issue of The Eyes invites readers to a visual exploration of what it means to be Afropean, a notion of expertise by our guest curator Johny Pitts, British photographer and author.
Singular historical and contemporary photographs, seminal books and pioneering magazines will explore the diversity of black identities as experienced in Europe (Afro-descendants and Carribean identities).
Entitled B-Side, this issue is strongly inspired by music, the field that gave birth to the term Afropean. B-Side is also an opportunity to take an offbeat approach and look at the B-side, the one we don't hear much about and see most often on the margins.
Johny Pitts is the curator of the ENAR (European Network Against Racism) award-winning online journal Afropean.com, and the author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (Penguin Random House). Translated into French, German, Italian and Spanish, this book was awarded the Jhalak 2020 prize and the Bread & Roses 2020 prize for radical publishing. It also won the 2021 Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding and the 2021 European Essay Prize.

"Afropean appeared to me as something I could anchor myself to, but which couldn't be monolithic - it had to be allowed to change and move as a term, functioning in the opposite way to nationalism, with its ethnic absolutism and narrative of blood and soil. It had to be a place of fusion and blur."
-Johny Pitts