‘At the beginning of last year Brian Cass [senior curator, Hayward Gallery Touring] approached me and said we want to work with you. He’s a very thoughtful and enigmatic man. I said in what kind of capacity? He said would you ever think about curating and I said yeah, so they gave me complete carte blanche. I said what do you have in mind? They said we just want to know what your ideas are,’ explains self-taught photographer, writer and broadcaster Johny Pitts.
In 2021 Pitts collaborated (William Collins, Sept 2022). The product of an African-American musician father and a white working-class mother, Pitts began to question what is black Britain today. Together they travelled around the British coast in search of an answer. Pitts’s black experience around Britain became the jump-off point for After the End of History, British Working Class Photography 1989-2024, an exhibition which moves between Coventry, Southend and Nottingham throughout 2024.
