Black, queer and visible: Ajamu’s intimate images – in pictures

Self-Portrait on Chez Lounge, 1998

‘The (heels) image, and my work in general, is both playful yet serious, and – as usual with my photographic practice, theoretical provocations, visual politics and aesthetics – unapologetically celebrates black queer bodies, the erotic, sex and pleasure as resistance to the constant framing of our complex and nuanced lived experiences within a deficit paradigm’