Artist Interviews

Artist Interviews

Tender Encounters with Rotimi Fani-Kayode

Mark Sealy x Dennis Carney

Rotimi’s friend and model, Dennis Carney, speaks with Autograph’s Director, Mark Sealy

Artist Interviews

Talking Back to Power: A Time of Future-Past

C. Rose Smith x Bindi Vora

Artist C. Rose Smith discusses her work challenging the history of slave labour in the Southern United States through photography

Artist Interviews

Seeds of Knowledge / Countering Erasure

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte x Bindi Vora

Artist Mónica Alcázar-Duarte discusses her experience of living between cultures & considers how being a migrant has shaped her practice

Artist Interviews

Aesthetic Justice: Love and Language in Exile

Bathsheba Okwenje x Bindi Vora

The artist discusses her work reinterpreting geographical imbalances, displacement and hidden histories

Artist Interviews

Telling Tales of Black Women’s Bodies in Rural Landscapes

Wanja Kimani x Bindi Vora

The artist discusses her insistence on visibility and the ways in which storytelling can be a form of resistance work

Artist Interviews

Tricking the Colonial Tricksters: Intervening in Ethnographic Space

Syowia Kyambi x Bindi Vora

On creating community and making interventions that can ease the burden of working with colonial histories and records

Artist Interviews

Envisaging Genealogies and Disability Justice

Sabrina Tirvengadum x Bindi Vora

The artist discusses digital tools for accessibility and her artistic journey to unearth her Mauritian identity

Artist Interviews

Reflections on the Self

Hélène Amouzou x Bindi Vora

Discussing the artist's deeply personal work within the context of migration, perseverance and the politics of (in)visibility

Artist Interviews

Dave Lewis: West Indian Ex-Servicemen

Dave Lewis discusses his portraits of members of the Windrush generation who fought for Britain during the Second World War

Artist Interviews

Rock Against Racism, Smash It! Rock Against Fascism, Smash It!

Syd Shelton x Livvy Murdoch

How members of the UK’s punk and reggae music scenes confronted racist ideology in the 1970s

Artist Interviews

Tailoring Freedom

Sasha Huber x Bindi Vora

Discussing agency, legacy and the historical archive

Artist Interviews

Time Travel Interventions in the Archive

Sim Chi Yin x Renée Mussai and Bindi Vora

Using the archive as a precarious site for photographic time travel

Artist Interviews

She Fights in the Fields - Guardians of the Land

Laura El-Tantawy x Renée Mussai and Bindi Vora

Discussing the artist's new commission addressing the mental health of UK farmers

Artist Interviews

Art Muse-ings: Photography and Spiritualism

Gisela Torres x Bindi Vora

Creative practice, spiritual connections and telling stories that are both personal and historical

Artist Interviews

We’re Magic. We’re Real #3: Practising Connectivity

Jeannette Ehlers x Renée Mussai

Exploring interconnectedness of Afrodiasporic identities, collective resistance and practising freedom

Artist Interviews

Ecologies of Care – Birthing Afrodiasporic Ecofeminist Futures

Mónica de Miranda x Renée Mussai

An in-depth conversation about the artist's new commission

Artist Interviews

Afropean Remedial Gestures (Part I): Introducing Tilo Frey

Sasha Huber x Renée Mussai

Artist Sasha Huber on her portrait honouring the Cameroonian-Swiss pioneering political activist

Artist Interviews

Totally Brilliant Chaos

Katriona Beales x Livvy Murdoch

On the politics and practice of creative programming for children with complex needs and their families

Artist Interviews

Fantasy Through a Feminist Lens

Poulomi Basu x Bindi Vora

Exploring notions of trauma, self-care and worldbuilding

Artist Interviews

Five Quick Questions: Thompson Hall

On taking creative time, space and inspiration

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What it Means to be Human

Karl Ohiri x Bindi Vora

How do we reflect on the importance of care and community within a globalised world?

Artist Interviews

On Care, Memory and Place

Sonal Kantaria x Mark Sealy

A conversation about notions of home, family and heritage

Artist Interviews

Isolation, Distance, Encounters, Invention

Joy Gregory x Mark Sealy

Lockdown routines during the pandemic and how these informed the artist's new work

Artist Interviews

Notions of Becoming

Ope Lori x Campbell X

On the politics of sexual and cultural difference in Ope Lori's wider practice and new commission

Artist Interviews

On Structural Isolation

Silvia Rosi x Bindi Vora

Reflecting on the notion of contagion: the absence of gesture, touch, and personal structures previously taken for granted

Artist Interviews

Our Cultures are the Portals

Poulomi Desai x Mark Sealy

The artist Poulomi Desai discusses her practice and the metaphor of the petri dish in the context of control, nurture and care

Artist Interviews

Photography and Parity

Dexter McLean x Mark Sealy

On identity, community and representations of disabled people in the 21st century

Artist Interviews

When Everything Fell Silent

Mohini Chandra x Bindi Vora

Discussing the artist's newly commissioned film work, and how the pandemic revealed local stories that illuminate global concerns

Artist Interviews

If We Care Enough [To Look]

Aida Silvestri x Renée Mussai

The artist speaks about her commission, a compelling critique of the rhetoric and structural inequalities exposed by Covid-19

Artist Interviews

In Search of Stillness

Othello De'Souza-Hartley x Renée Mussai

On using creative practice to reflect and mediate grief

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Artist Interview: Sunil Gupta

Discussing his photography and activism, and how an Autograph commission in 1999 became the title of his retrospective

Artist Interviews

Drown in my Magic

David Uzochukwu x Bindi Vora

"I could escape into spaces full of beauty, live in stories where I could be powerful"

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Photographers in conversation

Sunil Gupta x Jermaine Frances

On documentary practices, defining black photography and the formation of Autograph

Artist Interviews

Sunil Gupta Artist Talk

Sunil Gupta x Mason Leaver-Yap

The artist discusses his life, photography and activism

Artist Interviews

Shadow Selves

Tobi Alexandra Falade x Bindi Vora

"All my works are in ways reflections of various guises of myself"

Artist Interviews

Interview with Maryam Wahid

Maryam Wahid x Bindi Vora

About the power of family albums to unlock the past

Artist Interviews

Interview with Monica Alcazar-Duarte

Monica Alcazar-Duarte x Bindi Vora

Algorithms influence what images are seen online. How does this relate to lived experiences of discrimination?

Artist Interviews

The Enduring Legacies of Women's Trauma

Poulomi Basu x Bindi Vora

"I want them to know that we are fighting this oppression together. And we are doing this with agency"

Artist Interviews

Interview with Mouth That Roars

Denise Rose x Ali Eisa

“Black young people with autism are rarely represented in the public arena”