When I was a kid and having the kind of fun a mixed race Anglo Somali transracial adoptee was likely to have in 1970s rural Worcestershire, I used to stare into the mirror and try and will my skin lighter. I did this in part because wanted to look like my family or...
The late vegetarian playwright George Bernard Shaw used to say he’d like to dig up Shakespeare and throw stones at him. It’s a completely unreasonable position to take in so many ways, but not entirely. Shaw got irritated with some of the weaknesses in Shakespeare’s...
Apple Tree, Quidhampton Mill, Tina Rowe 2025 I made this photograph on Sunday, 17th August 2025, around 5pm. It’s made of light sensitive emulsion, gelatin, paper, plastics and photons. Photons are possibly the most magical thing I can think of as light from the sun...
I saw many other exhibitions but these were the ones that I ended up thinking about the most. There were two shows that stood out to me were: Diana Markosian: The Cut Out, Father series, 2014-2024 and In Search of the Father by Camille Lévêque. These two could not be...
I have a thing about hijabs. Not all hijabs, if you want to wear a hijab, wear it with pride, it’s just the compulsory ones that I dislike. My favourite hijab game by far has been the Iranian form of drop a light scarf in the proximity of your head and sashay....