To celebrate A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern, we invited Tate Collective to respond to the themes of the exhibition with their own photography. A curated selection of entries feature on billboards across London for two weeks from 20 November – 4 December, at the following locations:
- Finsbury Park Tube/Stroud Green Road London N4 3JU
- 6 Peckham Hill Street London SE15 5JT
- 105A Minories London EC3N 1LA
- Union Street London SE1 1SG
- Cornwall Road London SE1 8LN
- 99 Whitechapel High Street London E1 7PH
THE SELECTED PHOTOS
Finsbury Park
Finsbury Park Tube/Stroud Green Road London N4 3JU
Freedom (Uhuru) by Alicia Quayson
Ori Inu by Aisha Seriki
Portrait of a King by Sohaila Ferrier
G Silundika St by Sondliwe Pamisa
Village Girls by Theresa Macharia
Blue Golds by Yingying Gao
Peckham Hill Street
126 Peckham Hill Street London SE15 5JT
Generational Harmony in Lagos by Amy Ibukunoluwa Lewis
Yoruba Groom by Naomi Omokhua
Chances of the Third Space Unveiled by Iman Dagnoko
Never Too Many by Najla Said
Tower Gateway Station
105A Minories London EC3N 1LA
Aiding and Abetting Heterosexuality by Mars Obonyo
The Tourist by Isabella Schneider
irin ajo iya by Bridget Eke
Catcher in the Rye by Florence Wong
Flat Iron Square
Union Street London SE1 1SG
Out of Danfo by Betty Ogun
Healing by Olamide Taiwo/ MxNeptune
Eid in Blue by Muorada Ibrahim
Testimony by Mayowa Oyewale
The Old Vic
Cornwall Road London SE1 8LN
Power of the informal by Robin Ringel
Mangrove by Shaëny Cassim-Itibar
Mumulia by Patricia Luyindula
Chosen Family by Rhoda Akindele
Fambul Biznes by Salima Kamara
The Spirit Wanders by Jack Nelson
From India to England by Dhwani
Ndako by Gabin Kongolo
Whitechapel High Street
99 Whitechapel High Street London E1 7PH
Your Grandma's Favourite Speedans by Serpent Sibahle Daniel
Salvation in the Sahel by Gina Bell
Ichie by Ikaay Ebi
A Boy's Summer Job by Bea Dero
About the open call
A World in Common brings together 36 artists from different generations who use photography to reimagine Africa’s place in the world. From the girl gangs of Morocco by Hassan Hajjaj to the dream-like Ethiopian landscapes by Aïda Muluneh, all the way to the studios of 1960s Ghana and Sabelo Mlangeni’s portraits of South African queer communities. This exhibition explores what it means to work with contemporary African photography today.
To celebrate the exhibition, we invited Tate Collective to share their own photographic responses to the exhibition and its key themes around inherited tradition, family portraits and imagined futures.
The Result
We received over 100 submissions for this open call. 30 photographs were chosen for the billboards by our panel of judges, including artist, Koby Martin, photographer, Serena Brown, Tate curator, Jess Baxter and Soraya Chumroo, Tate’s Head of Design. All those selected have been paid for use of their work, which feature on billboards across London from 20 November – 4 December. Scroll down to see the photo submissions chosen by our panel.
Tate Collective is supported by Anthony and Sandra Gutman, The Rothschild Foundation and Tate Patrons.