• Artist Bio
  • A Sensual Chorus of Gestures - Amanda Wilkinson Gallery -2024
  • Ajamu: Patron Saint of Darkrooms, 2023 [ images by kate elliott
  • Ecce Homo: Behold the Man 2023
  • Very Private , Charleston House , 2022
  • Reluctant Voyeurs 2021
  • Portraits and Nudes, 2020
  • Fierce: Toronto 2019
  • Portraits , 2018
  • Portraits 2017
  • Portraits 2016
  • Portraits , Queer Cities:Sao Paulo 2016
  • Dick 2016
  • Portraits , Durban, South Africa 2016
  • Portraits and Nudes 2015
  • Archiving Sidways, 2015
  • I Am For You Can Enjoy with Khalil West 2015
  • Future Histories: Celebrating the Scottish Diaspora 2014
  • Black Circus Master Series 1997
  • Black Severin, 1997
  • Early Works 1990- 1995
  • Contact
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AJAMU:STUDIOS

  • Artist Bio
  • A Sensual Chorus of Gestures - Amanda Wilkinson Gallery -2024
  • Ajamu: Patron Saint of Darkrooms, 2023 [ images by kate elliott
  • Ecce Homo: Behold the Man 2023
  • Very Private , Charleston House , 2022
  • Reluctant Voyeurs 2021
  • Portraits and Nudes, 2020
  • Fierce: Toronto 2019
  • Portraits , 2018
  • Portraits 2017
  • Portraits 2016
  • Portraits , Queer Cities:Sao Paulo 2016
  • Dick 2016
  • Portraits , Durban, South Africa 2016
  • Portraits and Nudes 2015
  • Archiving Sidways, 2015
  • I Am For You Can Enjoy with Khalil West 2015
  • Future Histories: Celebrating the Scottish Diaspora 2014
  • Black Circus Master Series 1997
  • Black Severin, 1997
  • Early Works 1990- 1995
  • Contact

Biography:

Ajamu X (HON FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist. His philosophical provocations, and aesthetics celebrates  black queer bodies, the erotic senses , pleasure , and the sensual - material attributes of image production.

His work has been exhibited in many prestigious museums, galleries and alternative spaces worldwide. In 2022, he was canonised by The Trans Pennine Travelling Sisters as the Patron Saint of Darkrooms and received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.

His work sits within many private and public collections including: The Rose Art Museum, Gallery of Modern Art, Autograph, Tate Britain, Arts Council of England, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Full CV available on request