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The list Black British photographers includes James Barnor, Yinka Shonibare, Horace Ové, Zak Ové and Armet Francis. The list consists of 26 members.

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British people of African descent
  • 1.

    Horace Ové
    British photographer and filmmaker
    Overview: Sir Horace Shango Ové CBE (3 December 1936 – 16 September 2023) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British filmmaker, photographer, painter and writer based in London, England. One of the leading black in ...
    Date of birth: 1939
    Date of death: 16 September 2023
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Film Director
    Gender: Male
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    Black British cinema 29T
    Photographers from London 268T
    Trinidad and Tobago film people 3T
  • 2.

    Zak Ové
    British-Trinidad visual artist (born 1966)
    Zak Ové
    Overview: Zak Ové (born 1966) is a British visual artist who works between sculpture, film and photography, living in London, UK, and Trinidad. His themes reflect "his documentation of and anthropological interest ...
    Date of birth: 1966
    Age: 58
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Photographer
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    Photographers from London 268T
    21st-century male artists 1,869T
    Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art 226T
  • 3.

    Armet Francis
    Jamaican-born photographer and publisher
    Overview: Armet Francis (born 29 January 1945) is a Jamaican-born photographer and publisher who lives in London. He has been documenting and chronicling the lives of people of the African diaspora for more than ...
    Date of birth: 29 January 1945
    Age: 80
    Nationality: Jamaican
    Occupation: Photographer
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    Photographers from London 268T
    Documentary photographers 135T
    Jamaican emigrants to the United Kingdom 162T
  • 4.

    James Barnor
    Photographer
    James Barnor
    Overview: James Barnor FRPS (born 6 June 1929) is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely ...
    Date of birth: 6 June 1929
    Age: 95
    Nationality: Ghanaian
    Occupation: Photographer
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    Photographers from London 268T
    Fellows of the Royal Photographic Society 13T
    Ghanaian emigrants to England 30T
  • 5.

    Vanley Burke
    British Photographer and Artist
    Vanley Burke
    Overview: Vanley Burke (born 1951) is a British Jamaican photographer and artist, who has been described as "the Godfather of Black British Photography", with his body of work "regarded as the greatest photographic ...
    Date of birth: 8 July 1951
    Age: 73
    Nationality: Jamaican
    Occupation: Photographer
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    Photographers from Birmingham, West Midlands 16T
    21st-century male artists 1,869T
    English contemporary artists 388T
  • 6.

    Terri Quaye
    British jazz musician
    Overview: Terri Quaye, also Theresa (born 8 November 1940, Bodmin, England), is an English singer, pianist, songwriter and percussionist. She is the daughter of Cab Kaye, older sister of Caleb Quaye and half-sister ...
    Date of birth: 8 November 1940
    Age: 84
    Nationality: Ghanaian
    Occupation: Anthropologist
    Gender: Female
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    British women anthropologists 81T
    21st-century English women musicians 113T
    English women pianists 93T
  • 7.

    Faisal Abdu'allah
    Artist and barber
    Overview: Faisal Abdu'Allah (born 1969 in London) is a British artist and barber. His work includes photography, screenprint and installations.
    Date of birth: 1969
    Age: 55
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Artist
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    20th-century English artists 77T
    21st-century English artists 44T
    Alumni of Central Saint Martins 192T
  • 8.

    Yinka Shonibare
    British artist
    Yinka Shonibare
    Overview: Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA (born 1962) is a British-Nigerian artist living in the United Kingdom. His work explores cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context ...
    Date of birth: 9 August 1962
    Age: 62
    Nationality: Nigerian
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Male
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    Photographers from London 268T
    21st-century male artists 1,869T
    Artists with disabilities 72T
  • 9.

    Benji Reid
    British photographer (born 1966)
    Benji Reid
    Overview: Benji Reid (born 1966) is a British photographer, visual theatre maker, and educator. His work focuses on the intersection of race, nationhood, and gender with particular attention to the Black British ...
    Date of birth: 1966
    Age: 58
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    British portrait photographers 87T
    Afrofuturists 15T
    21st-century photographers 128T
  • 10.

    Janine Irons
    British music educator
    Overview: Janine Mireiile Irons MBE FRSA is a British music educator, artist manager and producer, who in 1991 co-founded with her partner Gary Crosby the music education and professional development organisation ...
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Educator
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  • 11.

    Syd Burke
    Broadcaster, photographer and journalist (1938–2010)
    Syd Burke
    Overview: Syd Burke (1938 – 30 July 2010), was a broadcaster, photographer and journalist, who moved to the UK from Jamaica to study photography in 1960, after having studied engineering, and later hosted London ...
    Date of birth: 1938
    Date of death: 30 July 2010
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: Jamaican
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Male
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  • 12.

    Brenda Agard
    British photographer
    Brenda Agard
    Overview: Brenda Patricia Agard (20 August 1961 – 29 October 2012) was a Black-British photographer, artist, poet and storyteller who was most active in the 1980s, when she participated in some of the first art ...
    Date of birth: 20 August 1961
    Date of death: 29 October 2012
    Age: 51 (age at death)
    Occupation: Photographer
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    Photographers from London 309T
    20th-century women photographers 651T
    20th-century British women artists 1,196T
  • 13.

    Khadija Saye
    Gambian-British photographer
    Khadija Saye
    Overview: Khadija Mohammadou Saye (30 July 1992 – 14 June 2017), also known as Ya-Haddy Sisi Saye, was a Gambian-British photographer. Her photography explored her Gambian-British identity and was exhibited ...
    Date of birth: 30 July 1992
    Date of death: 14 June 2017
    Age: 24 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Photographer
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  • 14.

    Ajamu X
    British artist
    Overview: Ajamu X (born 1963 in Huddersfield) is a British artist, curator, archivist and activist. He is best known for his fine art photography which explores same-sex desire, and the Black male body, and his ...
    Date of birth: 1963
    Age: 61
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
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    LGBT Black British people 63T
    Photographers from Yorkshire 51T
    LGBT artists from the United Kingdom 71T
  • 15.

    Mark Sealy
    British curator and cultural historian
    Mark Sealy
    Overview: Mark Sealy MBE (born 1960) is a British curator and cultural historian with a special interest in the relationship of photography to social change, identity politics and human rights. In 1991 he became ...
    Date of birth: 1960
    Age: 64
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Curator
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    Photographers from Northumberland 11T
    Royal Photographic Society 89T
    Black British academics 36T
  • 16.

    Maud Sulter
    Artist
    Maud Sulter
    Overview: Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008) was a Scottish contemporary fine artist, photographer, writer, educator, and curator of Ghanaian heritage. She first worked as a writer and poet, later ...
    Date of birth: 19 September 1960
    Date of death: 27 February 2008
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century British women artists 1,115T
    Scottish people of Ghanaian descent 7T
    20th-century British women writers 1,321T
  • 17.

    Charlie Phillips (photographer)
    Jamaican photographer
    Charlie Phillips (photographer)
    Overview: Ronald "Charlie" Phillips (born 22 November 1944), also known by the nickname "Smokey", is a Jamaican-born restaurateur, photographer, and documenter of black London. He is now best known for his phot ...
    Date of birth: 1944
    Age: 80
    Nationality: Jamaican
    Occupation: Photographer
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    Photographers from London 268T
    Black British culture in London 20T
    Documentary photographers 135T
  • 18.

    Dennis Morris
    British photographer
    Dennis Morris
    Overview: Dennis Morris is a British photographer, best known for his images of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols.
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Photographer
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    Photographers from London 294T
    Artists from London 1,050T
    Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
  • 19.

    Maxine Walker
    British-Jamaican photographer and critic
    Overview: Maxine Walker (born 1962) is a British-Jamaican photographer and critic. Based in Handsworth and active between 1985 and 1997, Walker has been described by Rianna Jade Parker as "a force within the Black ...
    Date of birth: 1962
    Age: 62
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    Claudette Holmes
    British photographer
    Overview: Claudette May Holmes (born 1962) is a British photographer. Her work, which uses elements of montage and hand-colouring, has challenged stereoptypical representations of Black British people.
    Date of birth: 1962
    Age: 62
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