Dates:
5 Sep 2026, 11.00
People:
David A. Bailey, Joy Gregory, Ayesha Jones, Roshini Kempadoo, Pelumi Odubanjo, Ian Sergeant, Ajamu X
Location:
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Project:
Ten.8 afterimage Symposium
Saturday 5 September 2026
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Speakers: Ajamu X, David A. Bailey, Joy Gregory, Ayesha Jones, Roshini Kempadoo, Pelumi Odubanjo and Ian Sergeant
The Ten.8 afterimage symposium brings together artists, curators, writers and researchers to reflect on the enduring legacy of the photography journal Ten.8 (1978 -1992) and address relevant questions around photography, representation, identity and cultural production. Across the day, we will consider how photographic and wider visual practices have shaped ways of seeing, remembering and representing communities across generations between the 1980s and today.
Across two panel discussions, invited speakers will explore the meanings and afterlives of images, considering how photographs circulate, how they are read, and how they acquire new significance over time in relation to race, gender, sexuality and culture. The discussions will reflect on traditions of self-representation and collective image-making, examining more widely how Black and diasporic communities have created spaces for visibility, authorship and cultural expression through photography, print culture and contemporary artistic practice.
Book NowSymposium Schedule:
The symposium will include a guided tour of the exhibition Ten.8 afterimage led by curator Pelumi Odubanjo followed by two panel discussions with a break in between for lunch. The schedule is as follows:
11 -11:45 AM – Exhibition tour with Pelumi Odubanjo
12 PM – Introduction
12:15 – 1:15 PM – Panel 1: Reading Black Images: from Ten.8 to the present
How do we define ‘black images’ today? And how are these images read, circulated, and understood across different historical moments? Bringing together artists, curators, and writers, this panel reflects on the shifting meanings of Black photographic representation from the period of Ten.8 to the present day. Through conversations around archives, intimacy, spectatorship, and contemporary image cultures, the discussion considers how Black visual practices continue to shape ways of seeing, remembering, and relating.
Speakers: Ian Sergeant and Ajamu X
Moderator: David A. Bailey
1:15 – 2:15 PM – Break for lunch
2:15 – 3:30 PM – Panel 2: Survival and self-representation: from the 1980s to today
Bringing together artists and researchers across generations, this panel explores questions of self-representation and image-making from the 1980s to the present. Taking inspiration from Survival Magazine and wider photographic practices connected to Ten.8, the conversation considers how primarily Black women and diasporic communities have produced spaces for visibility, authorship, and collective expression across print, photography, and contemporary artistic practice.
Speakers: Roshini Kempadoo, Joy Gregory and Ayesha Jones
Moderator: Pelumi Odubanjo
3:30 – 3:44 PM – Closing remarks
4 PM – Event ends
About Ten.8 afterimage:
Curated by Pelumi Odubanjo
A partnership project between The New Art Gallery Walsall and International Curators Forum
Ten.8 afterimage explores the legacy and enduring impact of Ten.8 (1978–1992), a photography journal that emerged from the Midlands’ radical cultural and political landscape. Ten.8 played a key role in shaping critical debates about representation and the politics of photography.
Ten.8 offered new ways of thinking about photography’s social, cultural and political responsibilities. Founded in Handsworth in 1979 amid major social and political change in Britain, the journal was shaped by several key moments across the later 20th century, from the Handsworth and Brixton uprisings, Thatcherite neoliberal reforms, and the rise of Black British cultural politics. Ten.8 also engaged with global conversations around feminist movements, gay and lesbian rights and struggles against apartheid, colonialism, and state violence. Ten.8 afterimage engages with the continued relevance of the contexts and concerns that the journal addressed. The exhibition brings photographic works produced in the 1980s and 1990s into dialogue with more recent artworks, bringing into focus key considerations raised by Ten.8 across the subjects of visibility, power, and representation.
The exhibition will present a newly commissioned work by British Ghanaian visual artist Heather Agyepong alongside works by Ajamu X, Dawoud Bey, Zarina Bhimji, Derek Bishton, Brian Homer & John Reardon, JEB (Joan E. Biren), Vanley Burke, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Gon Buurman, Renee Cox, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Joy Gregory, Sunil Gupta, George Hallett, Claudette Holmes, Roshini Kempadoo, Dave Lewis, Cynthia MaiWa Sitei, Masterji, Ming de Nasty, Ingrid Pollard, Franklyn Rodgers, Donald Rodney, Jamel Shabazz, Lorna Simpson, Jo Spence (in collaboration with Rosy Martin), James Van Der Zee, Maxine Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and Deborah Willis.
The exhibition runs from 1 May to 13 September 2026 at The New Art Gallery Walsall.
People:
David A. Bailey, Joy Gregory, Ayesha Jones, Roshini Kempadoo, Pelumi Odubanjo, Ian Sergeant, Ajamu X
Project:
Ten.8 afterimage Symposium
Saturday 5 September 2026
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Speakers: Ajamu X, David A. Bailey, Joy Gregory, Ayesha Jones, Roshini Kempadoo, Pelumi Odubanjo and Ian Sergeant
The Ten.8 afterimage symposium brings together artists, curators, writers and researchers to reflect on the enduring legacy of the photography journal Ten.8 (1978 -1992) and address relevant questions around photography, representation, identity and cultural production. Across the day, we will consider how photographic and wider visual practices have shaped ways of seeing, remembering and representing communities across generations between the 1980s and today.
Across two panel discussions, invited speakers will explore the meanings and afterlives of images, considering how photographs circulate, how they are read, and how they acquire new significance over time in relation to race, gender, sexuality and culture. The discussions will reflect on traditions of self-representation and collective image-making, examining more widely how Black and diasporic communities have created spaces for visibility, authorship and cultural expression through photography, print culture and contemporary artistic practice.
Book NowSymposium Schedule:
The symposium will include a guided tour of the exhibition Ten.8 afterimage led by curator Pelumi Odubanjo followed by two panel discussions with a break in between for lunch. The schedule is as follows:
11 -11:45 AM – Exhibition tour with Pelumi Odubanjo
12 PM – Introduction
12:15 – 1:15 PM – Panel 1: Reading Black Images: from Ten.8 to the present
How do we define ‘black images’ today? And how are these images read, circulated, and understood across different historical moments? Bringing together artists, curators, and writers, this panel reflects on the shifting meanings of Black photographic representation from the period of Ten.8 to the present day. Through conversations around archives, intimacy, spectatorship, and contemporary image cultures, the discussion considers how Black visual practices continue to shape ways of seeing, remembering, and relating.
Speakers: Ian Sergeant and Ajamu X
Moderator: David A. Bailey
1:15 – 2:15 PM – Break for lunch
2:15 – 3:30 PM – Panel 2: Survival and self-representation: from the 1980s to today
Bringing together artists and researchers across generations, this panel explores questions of self-representation and image-making from the 1980s to the present. Taking inspiration from Survival Magazine and wider photographic practices connected to Ten.8, the conversation considers how primarily Black women and diasporic communities have produced spaces for visibility, authorship, and collective expression across print, photography, and contemporary artistic practice.
Speakers: Roshini Kempadoo, Joy Gregory and Ayesha Jones
Moderator: Pelumi Odubanjo
3:30 – 3:44 PM – Closing remarks
4 PM – Event ends
About Ten.8 afterimage:
Curated by Pelumi Odubanjo
A partnership project between The New Art Gallery Walsall and International Curators Forum
Ten.8 afterimage explores the legacy and enduring impact of Ten.8 (1978–1992), a photography journal that emerged from the Midlands’ radical cultural and political landscape. Ten.8 played a key role in shaping critical debates about representation and the politics of photography.
Ten.8 offered new ways of thinking about photography’s social, cultural and political responsibilities. Founded in Handsworth in 1979 amid major social and political change in Britain, the journal was shaped by several key moments across the later 20th century, from the Handsworth and Brixton uprisings, Thatcherite neoliberal reforms, and the rise of Black British cultural politics. Ten.8 also engaged with global conversations around feminist movements, gay and lesbian rights and struggles against apartheid, colonialism, and state violence. Ten.8 afterimage engages with the continued relevance of the contexts and concerns that the journal addressed. The exhibition brings photographic works produced in the 1980s and 1990s into dialogue with more recent artworks, bringing into focus key considerations raised by Ten.8 across the subjects of visibility, power, and representation.
The exhibition will present a newly commissioned work by British Ghanaian visual artist Heather Agyepong alongside works by Ajamu X, Dawoud Bey, Zarina Bhimji, Derek Bishton, Brian Homer & John Reardon, JEB (Joan E. Biren), Vanley Burke, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Gon Buurman, Renee Cox, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Joy Gregory, Sunil Gupta, George Hallett, Claudette Holmes, Roshini Kempadoo, Dave Lewis, Cynthia MaiWa Sitei, Masterji, Ming de Nasty, Ingrid Pollard, Franklyn Rodgers, Donald Rodney, Jamel Shabazz, Lorna Simpson, Jo Spence (in collaboration with Rosy Martin), James Van Der Zee, Maxine Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and Deborah Willis.
The exhibition runs from 1 May to 13 September 2026 at The New Art Gallery Walsall.
Dates:
5 Sep 2026, 11.00
Location:
The New Art Gallery Walsall
