Shining Lights: Black Women in Photography in the 1980s-90s Britain

Author: Joy Gregory
Publisher: MACK
Year: 2024
Pages: 448
ISBN: 978-1913620752

Shining Lights: Black Women in Photography in the 1980s–90s is the first critical anthology of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked chapter of British photographic history. Seen through the lens of Britain’s sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication tells a unique story from the dual perspectives of lived experience and historical investigation, authored and researched by one of the period’s most influential photographic artists, Joy Gregory.

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