Home Is Not A Place

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Come and hear these tales, which echo across centuries of the black experience, transforming and illuminating the history of Britain.

Pitts’ photographs in this space are also accompanied by the poem, Home Is Not A Place, by Roger Robinson. Home could be a lone beach in the middle of nowhere, or a sun you’ve watched set over the same horizon all your life. com and author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, Pitts spent more than a decade documenting the Black experience in Europe. Listen to the two artists talk about how the book came to be, what they found out about themselves – and the country they live in – in this moody audio-visual version of Home Is Not A Place. The sound in this space comes from 1990s mixtapes recorded from the Black-run Sheffield pirate radio station SCR.Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. He has presented on MTV, BBC and ITV1, and his broadcasting includes a BBC Radio 4 documentary exploring Black identity through the music of his father who was a member of the Northern Soul group, The Fantastics. Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters and more. He is an alumnus of The Complete Works and was shortlisted for The OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, The Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize and the 2020 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, as well as being commended by the Forward Poetry Prize.

He is lead vocalist and lyricist for King Midas Sound and has also recorded solo albums with Jahtari Records.

Travelling in a red Mini Cooper, Pitts and Robinson’s circumnavigation encompassed the coastal, urban, rural and suburban, via the places in-between. Not only that, but so that you can use your awareness and intuition to guide you back home into safety. Invigorated by the quest to document Black Britain, Pitts presents a space that becomes pertinent at a global and diasporic level, what academic Michael Eric Dyson describes as being ‘rooted in, but not restricted by Blackness’. This is a book I have been waiting for' Caleb Azumah Nelson, Costa Book Award-winning author of Open Water ' Rich and evocative .

It fosters ideas of multicultural ‘conviviality’ as written about by Black British sociologist Paul Gilroy and presented by the works about Black British homes of artists such as Michael McMillan and Ronan Mckenzie. Home is Not a Place’ is a collaborative work uniting photography, poetry and select prose; this collection potently capturing a psychogeography of Black Britain—from Glasgow to Margate, comprised of both positive and negative exposures—with its aperture fully open to the synergy and synchronicity of Black joy. Having a sense of what home feels like is a great guide for our souls to know when we are in alignment with paths that lead to our greatest good. He currently presents Open Book for BBC Radio 4 and a forthcoming Afropean podcast funded by a grant from the National Geographic Society.In 2021, acclaimed poet Roger Robinson and award-winning author and photographer Johny Pitts drove around the UK coast to find out what it is like to be black in Britain today if you live outside the urban metropolitan centres. The exhibition is an important continuation of Pitts’ work to make every day Black experiences visible, creating an ‘alternative archive for the future’. As part of the Friends of Europe think tank’s European Young Leaders 2022 programme, Johny has been selected as one of the next generation of young leaders involved in shaping Europe’s future. They encountered Black British culture overlooked in official narratives, alongside the history of Empire and transatlantic slavery, to which every Briton is tethered.

Home is knowing we always have somewhere to run to, and we’ll be just fine, because home is within us. The Fellowship is a collaboration between The Ampersand Foundation and Photoworks, kindly supported by Spectrum Photographic and Arts Council England. They began in London and followed the river Thames east towards Tilbury, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948. If you can afford to do so, we would be so grateful if you can make a donation which will allow us to continue to bring stories to you, both in print and online. Following the coast clockwise, together they set out to document and respond to the many manifestations of Black British culture, and to present an alternative to official and media narratives.Pay attention to when you’re feeling at home and when you’re not so that when you find yourself in the midst of any sort of chaos you can always bring yourself back to your sanctuary. Sometimes home is solitude, other times it is the need for the noises that can drown out our thoughts — strange noises, familiar noises. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Wouldn’t it be glorious, if instead of thinking of home as the places that house us, we thought of ourselves as housing our homes, the carriers of our homes. Which is why while sometimes it might take travelling the world to “find yourself”, you find that you’d been inside of yourself all along.