Johny Pitts, Black Bricolage

Black Bricolage

Johny Pitts

Publisher
Mörel Books
Year
2026
Specifications
Riso printed
40 pages
Edition of 250
With an additional A5 booklet, a missing chapter from Afropean

Black Bricolage brings together photographs, notebooks and documents that bear witness to Black experiences in Europe and beyond, between 2004 and 2024. From Paris to Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Lisbon, Rome, Marseille and Saint-Paul-de-Vence, to newer work that includes images made in Freetown, Salvador Bahia and the US deep South, Johny Pitts illuminates Afro-European and Afro-diaspora realities that are often made invisible or poorly represented. His approach refuses both nostalgia and stereotype, but rather favours the ordinary: informal conversations, cafés, community centres, daily commutes, living spaces. His work is built through proximity, listening and exchange, in the company of workers, activists, musicians, educators, students and researchers alike. Pitts’s hauntological gaze connects each city he visits to its colonial past, its history and its present. This is not a bird’s-eye view, but a collection of fragments, patiently assembled through encounter.

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