Home Is Not A Place

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Pay attention to when you’re feeling at home and when you’re not so that when you find yourself in the midst of any sort of chaos you can always bring yourself back to your sanctuary.

Travelling in a red Mini Cooper, the two men traced the British coast line and dipped into urban, rural and suburban Britain. Sometimes home is solitude, other times it is the need for the noises that can drown out our thoughts — strange noises, familiar noises. They began in London and followed the river Thames east towards Tilbury, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948. Home is the families we are born into, and those we create for ourselves, be they by heart or by blood. A journey around the UK coast with a poet and a photographer has produced a beautiful and in depth meditation on Black Britishness.When I got to Windhoek and it was chilly, I went to Luanda the next day, and I felt at home, not because I had a home there, but because it was warm, and I associate warmth with home. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Home is with the person who throughout it all never gives up on you and brings you eternal happiness. Their collaboration became Home is Not a Place which has now arrived at The Photographers’ Gallery in Ramillies Street, Oxford Circus.

The structures we often find ourselves in when we are “at home” aren’t what make home home, it’s how we feel when we are there that make it so. Leaving London, they followed the River Thames east towards Tilbury, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948. Acclaimed poet Roger Robinson and award-winning author and photographer Johny Pitts have joined forces to explore this issue in their stunning new book, ‘Home Is Not A Place’. We are the structure…We house all our fears, hopes and aspirations, we house the power to make our dreams a reality.To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Now, in an illuminating new film by Piotr Sell, we can join Roger Robinson and Johny Pitts as they undertake their 2023 book tour, travelling by car between events in a mini re-enactment of their first journeys.

His debut photographic exhibition, ‘Afropean: Travels in Black Europe’, was at Foam, Amsterdam in 2020. What is it like to be black in Britain today, particularly if you live outside of the urban, metropolitan centres?Evocative mix of candid shots and poetry that capture the Black British experience and what the coast can mean as a boundary for identity and for exclusion.