The Black Triangle

More than three centuries of slave trading have defined the area called ‘The Triangle’ — Africa, Europe and the Americas — throughout which the African peoples are scattered today. This exhibition retraces the slave trade route, focusing on the diverse facets of black people’s experience, linked by a common and often bloody history.

Book, The Black Triangle, price £9.95

THE BLACK TRIANGLE

BY: ARMET FRANCIS

DATE: 1985

SIZE: 66 panels (40 x 30cms), laminated

FUNDED: GLC and Cockpit Gallery

SYNOPSIS: Photographs taken over a period of fourteen years in the West Indies, Africa, New York and London. Photographs that retrace the slave route, concentrating on showing the lives of Black People in ordinary situations.

“I’m aware as a black person that this society can easily present a negative image or give you a negative image – but I’ve passed through that – I’ve always felt it was my job to inform as many as possible, through my profession, of the position of black people wherever we’re scattered. That is the only legitimacy I have of photographing people.

The exhibition was AVAILABLE FOR HIRE FROM THE COCKPIT GALLERY