A series of six black and white medium format photographs created for the exhibition Autoportraits curated by Autograph.
The series of self-portraits reflected an impetus of the period in which black artists were concerned with putting ourselves in the frame. It was to turn the camera, using self-expression as a way of re-presenting identity as black and british. As constructed portraits using multiple exposure, and accompanied by text printed outside the frame of the photograph, Kellie Jones observed the following about the work in her article In Their Own Image for Artforum XXIX, No.3:
Much of this photography and text work ....has to do with "making ourselves visible," redefining the image/position of the woman/person of colour in the large discourse....Reterritorialization, includes recapturing one’s (combined and various) history, much of which has been dismissed as an insignificant footnote to the dominant culture. These objects then become texts of redemption and emancipation. Not simply adaptations of Western codes, they construct and (re)define the record of their makers’ own existence, challenging as well meanings and definitions once thought to be fixed. (Jones, 1990, p. 138)
