My photographic practice and politics both emanate from a culture of otherness. My work challenges the bullshit in which those of us with culturally forbidden lives/desires are represented (or hidden) within Western society. 
Ajamu is a photographer, cultural activist, and producer of Black queer arts festivals. Since 1990, his practice has explored the complex terrain of Black masculinity, same gender relationships, gender fuck and sadomasochism. 

His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums and alternative spaces throughout the world including New York, Sao Paulo, Berlin, London and Amsterdam. 

In 1993, he was a co-founder of Wickers and Bullers; Europe’s first commercially produced Black queer magazine. In 1996, he created The Black Perverts Network, a safer sex club for Black and Asian men into underwear and fetish gear. 

In 2000, along with filmmaker/theatre director Topher Campbell, he launched rukus! (a Black queer arts organisation) at The I.C.A. as part of London’s Mardi Gras festivities, and in the same year he received an award for his services to the UK Black gay community from Blackliners. He is also co-founder of The Breakfast Club, a monthly group for Black men regardless of sexual preference.  http://www.ajamu-fotographie.com

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