Ajamu X
Ajamu X (HON FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist. His practice places the sensual -material attributes of process and production, at the centre of the work and whose subject matter is similarly focused on black queer sensuality.
His work sits within many private and public collections including: The Rose Art Museum, GOMA, Autograph, Tate Britain, Arts Council of England, Victoria & Albert Museum, Matin Parr Foundation and The Walker Gallery. In 2025, Tate published a monograph on his practice as part of its Tate Photographic Series.
Joseph Adesunloye - Director
Joseph A. Adesunloye is a British-Nigerian screenwriter-director-producer working across film and television. His work often explores Cultural and Queer identity, migration and the politics of intimacy, with a bold visual sensibility and quiet emotional depth.
Jamal Gerald - Host
Jamal Gerald is an artist and writer based in Leeds, UK. His work is conversational, unapologetic and provocative with a social message. Jamal has undertaken artist residencies at Alice Yard (Trinidad) and RISCO Festival (São Paulo, Brazil), and completed research in Montserrat funded by Arts Council England. His work has also been shown at Kampnagel, SPILL Festival, New Performance Turku, Royal Court, Battersea Arts Centre and the Barbican.
Jamal is a Recipient of a Jerwood Arts’ Live Work Fund Award (2021), Another Route Fellowship (2022), and was short-listed for the Adopt A Playwright Award (2023). He is the author of Dee Jumbie Dance: A Resurrection (2023) and has participated in the Channel 4 New Writers Scheme (2024/25).