Dates:
1 May 2026 - 13 Sep 2026
People:
Location:
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Project:
Curated by Pelumi Odubanjo
A partnership project between The New Art Gallery Walsall and International Curators Forum
Location: The New Art Gallery Walsall, Floor 3 Gallery
Exhibition preview: Thursday 30 April, 6-8pm, all welcome
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.
Public Programme
Ten.8 afterimage Symposium – Saturday 5 September 2026, 11am – 3:45 pm, 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.
People:
Project:
Curated by Pelumi Odubanjo
A partnership project between The New Art Gallery Walsall and International Curators Forum
Location: The New Art Gallery Walsall, Floor 3 Gallery
Exhibition preview: Thursday 30 April, 6-8pm, all welcome
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.
Public Programme
Ten.8 afterimage Symposium – Saturday 5 September 2026, 11am – 3:45 pm, 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.
Dates:
1 May 2026 - 13 Sep 2026
Location:
The New Art Gallery Walsall
