Home Is Not A Place

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It is a thing of brilliance , with its own immersive energy, pulling the reader in and allowing them to wander around the world of Black Britain created on these pages. Pitts invites you to come in, take a seat and feel right at home - to experience what home means to him - whether you’re flicking through family photo albums, chatting and sharing ideas, or listening to pirate radio playlists from Pitts’ 1980s youth. Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters and more.

The years that led up to my move away for college were centered around internal and external strife.They began in London and followed the river Thames east towards Tilbury, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948.

This is a book I have been waiting for' Caleb Azumah Nelson, Costa Book Award-winning author of Open Water ' Rich and evocative .Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Sometimes home is just knowing we are loved, and we have loved, and other times it is fighting for love.

Too often, that is where the history told about Black Britain begins and ends - but Robinson and Pitts continued out of London, following the coast clockwise through Margate to Land's End, Bristol to Blackpool, Glasgow to John O'Groats and Scarborough to Southend on Sea. Realised as I was reading this that I’d seen the accompanying exhibition at the Photographers Gallery. Home is Not a Place’ is a collaborative work uniting photography, poetry and select prose; this collection potently capturing a psychogeography of Black Britain—from Glasgow to Margate, comprised of both positive and negative exposures—with its aperture fully open to the synergy and synchronicity of Black joy. It has been on show in Pitts’ hometown of Sheffield at the Graves Gallery, and at the Stills Gallery in Edinburgh.If you can afford to do so, we would be so grateful if you can make a donation which will allow us to continue to bring stories to you, both in print and online. Home Is Not a Place is the spectacular result of the journey they documented: a free-form composition of photography, poetry and essays that offers a book-length reflection upon Black Britishness – its complexity, strength and resilience – at the start of a new decade.