RESILIENCE

2020 was a landmark year, marking the start of Covid-19 and worldwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd and police brutality. Inspired by the hope that 2020 was a global tipping point in the history of black people all over the world, the photographs attempt to capture the essence of what it means to be young and black in Britain at that point in time. A generation that has inherited the traditions of racial oppression and injustice but who also invest their lives with a hope that was simply not possible in the past. The project documented young black people living in Britain following the political climate created by the black lives matter movement and during a global pandemic.

The photo series RESILIENCE attempts to narrate a story, to convey the multiplicity of what it means to be black. The portraits help us to reflect on the world around us, while simultaneously immortalising, celebrating and uplifting the young people captured in this series, people who may have inherited generations of racial oppression and injustice but are nonetheless thriving. The work highlight the hope that despite their history and cultural inheritance, individuals can take claim of a violent history and not succumb to it, through resilience and knowledge of Pan-african history extending long before colonialism that will continue to stretch well into the future.