DIANE SMYTH: Diane Smyth is a freelance journalist for publications such as The Guardian, Apollo, Creative Review, and British Journal of Photography. She has also curated exhibitions for The Photographers’ Gallery and Lianzhou Foto Festival.
TSOKU MAELA: Born March 29th in South Africa and working, predominantly, on the mediums of photography, film, and text – Maela uses his visual mediums not only to document the present but also a way to look into the future by revisualizing African narratives, culture, and aesthetics often as part of surreal and abstract visual worlds.
JANE ENGLAND: Jane England is an art historian and director/curator of England & Co gallery. The gallery’s programme has a research-based approach and includes photography, particularly that related to artists use of the medium in the 1970s. Jane England has also practiced as a photographer with a recent book, ‘Turn and Face the Strange’ published by Black Dog Publishing.
ADJOA ARMAH: Adjoa Armah is an artist, anthropologist, archivist, and writer based between London and Cape Coast. In 2015 she founded Saman, an archive of photographic negatives collected across Ghana that currently number approximately 100,000 images. Named Saman after the Akan word for ghost, also used to describe the photographic negative, the ghost is a central conceptual figure in her practice. Her research interests are broadly in technologies, as efficacious actions on subjects and objects, and Black ontologies.