Renowned British Jamaican photographer, Vanley Burke, is mentoring local artists for a community project asking ‘when was the first time you saw a black person’.
BBC News
By Aleisha Scott
image copyrightVanley Burke
image captionVanley Burke s images of the Windrush generation have established him as the ‘godfather of black British photography’
Vanley Burke s work is regarded as the greatest photographic record of African Caribbean people in post-war Britain, capturing its evolving cultural landscape and social history over the past four decades. He is now working with black artists in Gloucester to create a black history of the city and will be a guest speaker at the Gloucester History Festival on 17 April. In the 60s and 70s the way that black people were represented was in derogatory statements like lazy or go back home , Mr Burke said,
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