Liz Johnson Artur: 'I Will Keep You in Good Company' [Lecture & book signing]

Join us on 29 September for a special lecture at the Royal College of Art by Ghanaian-Russian photographer Liz Johnson Artur, whose new book I Will Keep You in Good Company publishes in September. Hosted by the RCA Photography programme in collaboration with MACK.

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Monday 29 September  
18:00-20:00

RCA Battersea
1 Hester Road 
London SW11 4AY
United Kingdom

About I Will Keep You in Good Company

I Will Keep You in Good Company brings together pages and fragments from over twenty of artist Liz 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. 

Each page is a tactile surface, combining photographic prints on canvas, tracing paper, faxes, and photo stock with screen-prints, handwriting, and clipped texts. The result is a sensorial, intimate archive of moments lived and witnessed – of friends, family, strangers, lovers – held with care and attention. 

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.

Can’t make the event? Order I Will Keep You in Good Company here.