- Morel Books 2024
- Softcover, 1st edition, 300p
- New
Afropean: A Journal gives an alternative interrail map of Europe, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty percent Muslim. Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riots, all the while presenting Afropeans as lead actors in their own story.
Johny Pitts presents an ongoing visual documentation to the lives and cultures of Black Europeans bringing together twenty years of photography, notebooks and ephemera. Adding new layers of understanding of the Black experience in Europe, and spanning cities such as Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Brussels, Amsterdam and Stockholm, Pitts delves even deeper into the lives, histories, and cultures of Afropeans.
Spanning a 5 month itinerary around Europe on trains searching for a different side of the continent and answers about his own mixed-race identity, Pitts blends photography with personal ephemera - such as tickets, diary notes, maps, postcards and many more collected over his journey - and featuring a selection of brand new essays written by the artist.
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