Vanley Burke: By The Rivers Of Birminam

Birmingham-based artist Vanley Burke is one of the country’s most prolific Black photographers, who exhibited his first retrospective By the Rivers of Birminam at the Midlands Arts Centre in 2012.

The catalogue displays 100 pictures dating from 1968 – 2011, showing the evolvement of Handsworth through a personal and intimate journey through the artist himself. His work is heavily centred around the British Caribbean community in Birmingham.

Vanley exhibited 5,000 Miles and 70 Years at MAC in 2018 as part of the Windrush Season.