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Benji Reid: The Making of 'Holding Onto Daddy'
Sat, 11 Feb
|Location is TBD
About the artist: Benji Reid is a British photographer, visual theatre maker, and educator. His work focuses on the intersection of race, nationhood, and gender, with particular attention to the Black British experience, Black masculinity, and mental health.
Time & Location
11 Feb 2023, 13:00
Location is TBD
Guests
About the event
Benji Reid's photograph Holding on to Daddy (2016) won the Wellcome Photography Prize 2020, mental health category, and is on display in Bethlem Museum of the Mind's A way from home exhibition. This event covers the processes involved in making this image, and other self-portraits. It will be an intimate portrayal of an artist working in the margins.
A pioneer of hip-hop theatre and culture in the United Kingdom, Reid describes himself as a 'choreo-photolist' a term her coined to refer to the practice of merging theatre and choreography into his photography.