After Dark

For five nights, as darkness falls, it is possible to see rare nineteenth century portraits of African, Caribbean and South Asian descent in Victorian Britain as they emerge on the facade of Newington Green Unitarian Church, Islington, London. 

These will be projected above grafitti artist Stewy’s portrait of radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, celebrated author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). The initiative is the second of three chapters where the photographic archive of Autograph ABP brought together archival images from different national and private collections during the ongoing three-year research project “The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicles”. The featured images come from the Hulton Archive (a division of Getty Images), National Portrait Gallery, Royal Collection Trust as well as the private collections of Val Wilmer, Michael Graham-Stuart, Amoret Tanner from FotoLibra, and Paul Frecker from The Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography.

The projection follows the one at Nichol’s Court in Hoxton, while the third one will be in the heart of Tottenham with images drawn from Autograph ABP’s “Exhibition In A Box”, projected onto the back-facing facade of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre. 

unitl 7 November 2016
After Dark
New Unity
39A Newington Green, Stoke Newington
London

9–13 November 2016
After Dark
Bernie Grant Arts Centre
Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green
London