テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「Get to know… Neil Kenlock 📷 ‘This is what I want to be—I want to fight against discrimination and racism and all the bad things that happen to us.’ Neil Kenlock is a Jamaican-born photographer who has lived in London since 1963, aged 13. He is known as being at the forefront of documenting the black experience in the UK. As a young man in south London, Kenlock captured photographs of the lives of his local community, in 1973 becoming a staff photographer for West Indian World, one of the first national Black British newspapers. He specialised in fashion, beauty and celebrities while also capturing the cultural lifestyles of the wider community. In the late 1960s he became involved with the British Black Panther movement, founded with the aim of educating Black British people about their history and giving them a voice to speak out against prejudice. Kenlock became the group’s official photographer, documenting anti-racist protests and demonstrations across the UK. He cites his reasons for joining as follows: 'I encountered racism when I was quite young – maybe 16 or 17. I went to a club in Streatham, and when I arrived I was told it was full and that I should come back next week. Which I did, and I was then told they wouldn't let me in because they didn't want "my type" in there. I protested that I didn't see why I shouldn't be let in. There were, of course, no discrimination laws in those days, so there was no one to tell about this.' These photographs act as an important record of the work of the British Black Panthers. In Kenlock’s words: ‘It’s a hidden story - that’s why it’s important that these photos exist. Without them, it would have been difficult to tell this story, especially to young people… it was a conscious contribution to the movement’. He went on to co-found the pioneering lifestyle magazine Root in 1979 and later became co-founder of Choice FM, the UK’s first legal radio station broadcasting to the black community. Black Panther school bags, 1970; Demonstration outside Brixton Library, 1972; ‘Keep Britain white’ graffiti, Balham, 1972; The Bailey sisters in Clapham, c.1970, from Tate's collection」6月6日 23時11分