Photographer Ajamu X is joined by curator and cultural historian Dr Mark Sealy – Executive Director of Autograph and Professor of Photography, Rights and Representation at University of the Arts London - for a conversation around Ajamu's creative practice. They will discuss sensuality, pleasure, and embodied curiosity as a way out of staid notions of identity thinking and representation.

This event has been programmed to coincide with the 2025 exhibition of Ajamu's Fierce: Bristol, on display in the MPF gallery 03 JUL to 21 SEPT.

Ajamu has set up portrait studios in select cities to create celebratory, distinctive and aspirational images mapping contributions of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer individuals, who have often been overlooked within mainstream narratives and histories. Last year MPF commissioned Ajamu to make ten new portraits adding a Bristol chapter to the Fierce archive. This talk will be set against the backdrop of large exhibition prints from this new work.

Ajamu and Mark will discuss Ajamu's ever-evolving Fierce archive as well as his long and varied photographic career more broadly.

'Far too often in the photographic work by black queer artists, content and subject matter is privileged over process and production even though they are intimately entwined.' - Ajamu