JOHNY PITTS Afropean: A Journal

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JOHNY PITTS Afropean: A Journal

Afropean: A Journal, takes twenty years of photographs, notebooks, and ephemera documenting the Black experience in Europe between 2004- 2024, through various crises from the wake of 9/11 and the Iran War through the global financial crisis, Brexit, the rise of rightwing populism in the 2010s and Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine in the 2020s. A working Black photographer himself, Johny Pitts self-funded a series of Interrail trips through Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Kyiv, Zagreb, Rome, Marseille, Lisbon and many more places, illuminating often misunderstood and misrepresented Afro-European communities in words and images.

Johny Pitts presents an ongoing visual documentation to the lives and cultures of Black Europeans bringing together twenty years of photography, notebooks and ephemera. Adding new layers of understanding of the Black experience in Europe, and spanning cities such as Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Brussels, Amsterdam and Stockholm, Pitts delves even deeper into the lives, histories, and cultures of Afropeans.

Johny Pitts

Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcaster known for his work in exploring African-European identities. He is the curator of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) award-winning Afropean.com, and the author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe. Currently, he co-hosts the Open Book literature programme for BBC Radio 4 and as a National Geographic Explorer, is the creator of a forthcoming Afropean podcast funded by National Geographical Society.

In recognition of his work, he has received the Jhalak Prize, the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, and the European Essay Prize.