by Johny Pitts (Author), Roger Robinson (Author)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
'Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking ... A book I will return to again and again' Bernardine Evaristo
A gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century
Author Biography
Roger Robinson won the 2019 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry and the 2020 RSL Ondaatje prize for A Portable Paradise. Roger has received commissions from The National Trust, London Open House, BBC, The National Portrait Gallery, V&A, INIVA, MK Gallery and Theatre Royal Stratford East, where he was also an associate artist.
Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcaster. He is the curator of the European Network Against Racism award-winning Afropean.com, the author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, and with Roger Robinson, Home Is Not A Place. In recognition of his work, he has received the Jhalak Prize, the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, and the European Essay Prize. The recipient of the inaugural Ampersand / Photoworks Fellowship, his photography has been exhibited at Foam (Amsterdam), E-Werk (Freiburg), and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago).