Home Is Not A Place

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Home is with the other half of your soul, the person who shares in your grief and helps you carry the burden of loss.

It is a thing of brilliance , with its own immersive energy, pulling the reader in and allowing them to wander around the world of Black Britain created on these pages.For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.

It’s important to be aware of how you are feeling and how your emotions shift in different environments. Having a sense of what home feels like is a great guide for our souls to know when we are in alignment with paths that lead to our greatest good. The Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship is a collaboration between The Ampersand Foundation and Photoworks, supported by Arts Council England. While I may be at my home in Florida, the feeling I get when I watch the sun go down is a feeling of tranquility, and that to me is what home really is.

This exhibition is infused with the Japanese architectural ideas of the ‘personal utopia’; a haven where one seeks respite from the difficulties of the outside world. A couple of years ago, I remember spending some months in Europe during winter, I generally cannot stand the cold, so when I found myself feeling homesick on that trip, I wasn’t homesick for a specific place, I was homesick for African warmth and sun, any African country would have done. And that was solidified tonight as I watched an amazing Florida sunset light the sky on fire with yellow, pink and purple.

Which is why while sometimes it might take travelling the world to “find yourself”, you find that you’d been inside of yourself all along. The sound in this space comes from 1990s mixtapes recorded from the Black-run Sheffield pirate radio station SCR. Come on a journey with Johny Pitts as he talks about a selection of photographs in the exhibition Home is Not a Place. For while roots are important and comforting, they do not always represent home, we aren’t meant to be rooted, we are not trees. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).They encountered Black British culture overlooked in official narratives, alongside the history of Empire and transatlantic slavery, to which every Briton is tethered. In the back part of the gallery, Pitts presents a room suggestive of a private space, quiet and contemplative. The audience is invited to spend time, sit down, relax and contemplate the many facets of what constitutes a home. Robinson's words are as careful as they are masterful ; Pitt's casual gaze is warm and conversational. Evocative mix of candid shots and poetry that capture the Black British experience and what the coast can mean as a boundary for identity and for exclusion.

The exhibition Home is Not a Place presents Pitts’ photographs from this journey within an installation divided into two parts for Stills’ gallery space.Following the coast clockwise, together they set out to document and respond to the many manifestations of Black British culture, and to present an alternative to official and media narratives. Acclaimed poet Roger Robinson and award-winning author and photographer Johny Pitts have joined forces to explore this issue in their stunning new book, ‘Home Is Not A Place’. Home is knowing we always have somewhere to run to, and we’ll be just fine, because home is within us. The recipient of the inaugural Ampersand/ Photoworks Fellowship, his photography has been exhibited at Foam (Amsterdam), E-Werk (Freiburg) and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago).