6/2/2023 0 Comments Picktorial vs affinity photo![]() The perception of Black people as immigrants plays into how we see ourselves, and how we are seen in these places. It’s a kind of reductionism which is employed on many groups. Being Black is still presented as some hegemonic position, its complexity, nuance, and richness flattened into one easily digestible identity. ![]() Being Black and alternative isn’t new, but it is still met with prejudice. They would all class themselves as alternative, and have all found the natural or rural landscape important. Some are people I know, others I got to know through making the work. In the following interview, the photographer discusses his roots, and the intention behind disrupting the landscape, and breaking down perceptions. His ongoing series A Storied Ground – currently on show in Paris – employs montage to consider the absence of the Black figure in the English pictorial landscape. He now works with organisations such as i-D, Beauty Papers, Self Service, Frieze Art Fair, Stella McCartney, and Marni, and has self-published two photobooks, Something that seems so familiar (2020) and Rhythms from the Metroplex (2021).įancis’ practice is rooted in documentary and portraiture, driven by personal experience and issues that arise out of interactions with the everyday environment. He studied at Walsall Art College and Derby College (now University of Derby) then moved to London, where he has carved out a career in photography. “I wanted to disrupt the viewing experience in a slightly ambiguous, obtuse way, to create figures like ghosts,” says Francis, whose ongoing work urges viewers to re-evaluate who is considered the natural inhabitant of English landscapesīorn in Birmingham, Jermaine Francis grew up in the 1980s in Tipton, a working-class, former industrial town in the West Midlands of England.
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