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Join acclaimed photographer Liz Johnson Artur and renowned designer Martine Rose for an evening of film and conversation to celebrate the launch of Johnson Artur’s new book, I Will Keep You in Good Company.
I Will Keep You in Good Company (SPBH Editions) brings together pages and fragments from over twenty of Johnson Artur’s personal workbooks – handmade volumes she has kept since the early 1990s. Part diary, part experimental playground, these books are where she shaped her photographic language through layering, cutting, annotating, and assembling: a space for processing not only images, but life itself.
The evening will begin with a screening of three films by Johnson Artur. Sitting in dialogue with the artist’s personal workbooks and celebrated Black Balloon Archive, the films reflect on Black British history, resistance and community in the context of the Windrush Scandal of the late 2010s and the geopolitical history of the artist’s own Ghanaian-Russian heritage. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the photographer and Martine Rose, as well as a special book signing. We hope you’ll join us.
Film Programme:
Real Times (2018) by Liz Johnson Artur, 12 minutes
Black Balloon Archive (2016) by Liz Johnson Artur, 19 minutes
Afro Russia (2019) by Liz Johnson Artur, 13 minutes
I Will Keep You in Good Company (SPBH Editions) brings together pages and fragments from over twenty of Johnson Artur’s personal workbooks – handmade volumes she has kept since the early 1990s. Part diary, part experimental playground, these books are where she shaped her photographic language through layering, cutting, annotating, and assembling: a space for processing not only images, but life itself.
The evening will begin with a screening of three films by Johnson Artur. Sitting in dialogue with the artist’s personal workbooks and celebrated Black Balloon Archive, the films reflect on Black British history, resistance and community in the context of the Windrush Scandal of the late 2010s and the geopolitical history of the artist’s own Ghanaian-Russian heritage. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the photographer and Martine Rose, as well as a special book signing. We hope you’ll join us.
Film Programme:
Real Times (2018) by Liz Johnson Artur, 12 minutes
Black Balloon Archive (2016) by Liz Johnson Artur, 19 minutes
Afro Russia (2019) by Liz Johnson Artur, 13 minutes
Bios
Liz Johnson Artur is a photographer based in London. For over three decades, her work has focused on the richness and complexity of Black lives around the world, culminating in her ongoing Black Balloon Archive. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Foam, Amsterdam; and the South London Gallery and Serpentine Galleries, London.
Martine Rose is a menswear designer who lives and works in London. Rose established her eponymous label in London in 2007 and it has since evolved from a tightly edited shirting collection to an internationally renowned and critically acclaimed brand. Rose is inspired by her Jamaican-British heritage and her deep interest and personal involvement in the music and high / low melting-pot cultures of London.
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07:00 pm
Wed, 01 Oct 2025
Cinema 1
£12.50 full price / £8.50 concessions
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