Ajamu Studios@198 CAL — AJAMU:STUDIOS

Biography

Ajamu X (HON FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist. His practice places the sensual -material attributes of process and production, at the centre of the work and whose subject matter is similarly focused on black queer sensuality.

His highly crafted images privilege those tangible/tactile sensuous elements of a socially engaged photographic practice which literally/metaphorically rubs up against the flattening out of black queer photographic practices to simple notions of identity – thinking, representation and narrow socio-political framing.

His work has been exhibited in many prestigious museums, galleries worldwide 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, GOMA, Autograph, Tate Britain, Arts Council of England, Victoria & Albert Museum, Matin Parr Foundation and The Walker Gallery. In 2025, Tate published a monograph on his practice as part of its Tate Photographic Series.

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