Four Twins

© the artist's estate. Image credit: Autograph

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Rotimi Fani-Kayode masterfully staged and crafted portraits, including this dramatic black-and-white image, visualising black queer self-expression through a fusing of African and European cultures.

During a tragically brief six-year career, Fani-Kayode used photography to explore themes of race, sexuality, spirituality and the self.

Fani-Kayode was born in Lagos, Nigeria to a prominent Yorùbá family before moving to England following the outbreak of civil war. He later studied in the USA, before settling permanently in London where he lived and worked until his untimely death in 1989. At the core of Fani-Kayode's work is an important emphasis on the cultural politics of difference. A prominent figure in the Black British art scene, he was one of the first chairs of Autograph and a founding signatory in 1988.

Autograph

London

Title

Four Twins

Date

1985

Medium

gelatin silver print

Measurements

H 50.5 x W 60.9 cm

Accession number

LDAUT.PR.3116.RFK

Work type

Photograph

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