The Eyes questionne les évolutions culturelles et sociétales à travers le prisme de la photographie et de la création et donne carte blanche aux experts directement concernés par les sujets abordés.
B-Side, le nouveau numéro du journal The Eyes, invite ses lecteurs à une exploration visuelle de ce que signifie être Afropean, une notion expertisée par le commissaire invité Johny Pitts, photographe et auteur britannique.
Photographes historiques et contemporains, livres et revues marquants et singuliers exploreront la diversité des identités noires vécues en Europe.
Intitulé « B-Side », ce numéro est fortement inspiré par la musique, le domaine qui a donné naissance au terme Afropean. B-Side est aussi l’occasion d’adopter une approche décalée et de regarder la face B, celle dont nous n’entendons pas beaucoup parler et que nous voyons la plupart du temps de façon marginale.
SUMMARY
TEXTS :
– B-SIDE by Taous Dahmani
– SPECTRES AND TEXTURES: THE B-SIDE WINS AGAIN by Johny Pitts
– CONVERSATION WITH MAD PROFESSOR by Melissa Chemam, Johny Pitts, Mad Professor, Roger Robinson
– 30 TRACKS FROM THE B -SIDE by Johny Pitts’ Afropean playlist
– WHAT DOES AFROPEAN MEAN TO YOU? By Thomas Chatterton Williams, Marie Daulne, Claude Grunitzky, Anna Lafont, Vittorio Longhi, Caryl Phillips, Minna Salami, Elvan Zabunyan
– THE EYES X PHOTOCAPTIONIST by Johny Pitts, Roger Robinson
– 13 Artists PORTFOLIOS :
JAZZ GRANT
MOHAMED BOUROUISSA
JAMES BARNOR
EDDIE OTCHERE
RÉMY BOURDEAU
SILVIA ROSI
CÉDRINE SCHEIDIG
ZINEB SEDIRA
BRUNO BOUDJELAL
TABITA REZAIRE
DÉLIO JASSE
MAUD SULTER
MARVIN BONHEUR
SOFIA YALA RODRIGUES
– 7 books Portfolios:
revue noire
10 YEARS OF TRACE
LIZ JOHNSON ARTUR
PARIS BOUT DU MONDE // aNAIK FRANTZ & Francois Maspero
THE GHOSTS OF SONGS: THE FILM ART OF THE BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE // Kodwo Eshun & Anjalika Sagar
BISO BANA YA POTO // CLAUDIA NDEBELE
A SERIES OF UTTERLY IMPROBABLE, YET EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS // ARTHUR JAFA
The Eyes questions cultural and societal evolutions through the prism of photography and creation and gives carte blanche to experts directly concerned by the subjects addressed. B-Side, the upcoming issue of The Eyes journal, invites its readers to a visual exploration of what it means to be Afropean, a notion of expertise of our guest curator Johny Pitts, British photographer and author.
Historical and contemporary photographers, seminal and singular books and journals will explore the diversity of black identities as experienced in Europe.
Entitled “B-Side“, this issue is strongly inspired by music, the field that gave birth to the term Afropean. B-Side is also an opportunity to take an offbeat approach and look at the B-side, the one we don’t hear much about and see most of the time in a marginal way.
About Johny Pitts – THE EYES #12 Guest curator
Johny Pitts is the curator of the ENAR (European Network Against Racism) award-winning online journal Afropean.com and the author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (Penguin Random House). Translated into French, German, Italian and Spanish, it has been awarded the 2020 Jhalak Prize and the 2020 Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing and is the recipient of the 2021 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding and the 2021 European Essay Prize.
