2018.11.04凡利-伯克 英国黑人摄影教父

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Vanley Burke is a Jamaican-born photographer often described as the Godfather of Black British Photography. His body of work is regarded as the greatest photographic record of African Caribbean people in post-war Britain. He is motivated by a desire to document culture and history.

Vanley was born in 1951 in St Thomas, Jamaica. When he was four, his mother emigrated to Britain to train as a nurse, leaving him in his grandparents’ care. His mother sent him a Box Brownie camera as a present when he was ten, and his interest in photography was born. When he was 14 he left Jamaica to join his mother and her husband and their children, in Handsworth, Birmingham, where they ran a shop. Vanley’s fascination with photography continued and he began taking photographs of every aspect of the life of his local community. He also started collecting relevant objects to provide more context for his photographs, gathering everything from pamphlets, records and clothes to hurricane lamps. His archive became so substantial that it is largely housed in Birmingham’s Central Library.

In 1977 he photographed African Liberation Day in Handsworth Park, documenting what is thought to be the largest all-black crowd ever to assemble in Britain. In 1983 he held his first exhibition, Handsworth from the Inside, at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, and in 2015 the entire contents of his flat was relocated to the gallery for the exhibition At Home with Vanley Burke. His images have appeared in galleries around the UK and abroad. Earlier this year, he was commissioned to mark the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, creating the installation 5000 Miles and 70 Years at the MAC in Birmingham.

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凡利-伯克是一位出生于牙买加的摄影师，通常被称为英国黑人摄影教父。他的作品被认为是战后英国非洲加勒比人的最伟大的摄影记录。他的动机是记录文化和历史的愿望。

凡利1951年出生于牙买加的圣托马斯。在他四岁的时候，他的母亲移民到英国接受护士培训，把他留给祖父母照顾。在他10岁时，他的母亲送他一台Box Brownie相机作为礼物，他对摄影的兴趣由此产生。14岁时，他离开牙买加，到伯明翰的汉兹沃思投奔母亲和她的丈夫以及他们的孩子，在那里他们经营一家商店。Vanley对摄影的迷恋继续下去，他开始拍摄当地社区生活的各个方面。他还开始收集相关物品，为他的照片提供更多的背景，收集从小册子、记录和衣服到飓风灯的所有东西。他的档案变得如此之多，以至于大部分都存放在伯明翰的中央图书馆里。

1977年，他在Handsworth公园拍摄了非洲解放日，记录了被认为是英国有史以来最大的全黑人群集会。1983年，他在伯明翰的Ikon画廊举办了他的第一次展览《Handsworth from the Inside》，2015年，他的公寓的全部内容被搬到了画廊，举办了《At Home with Vanley Burke》展览。他的图像出现在英国和国外的画廊。今年早些时候，他被委托纪念 "帝国风 "抵达70周年，在伯明翰的MAC创作了装置作品《5000英里和70年》。

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