テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「Get to know: Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) was a Nigerian-born photographer who moved to Brighton at the age of 11, having fled Nigeria’s civil war. After coming out as gay, he left the UK and studied fine art and photography at New York’s Pratt Institute. Returning to the UK in the mid 1980s, he began to explore the tensions created by sexuality, race and culture through his emotionally raw portraits.⁣⁣⁣ Fani-Kayode was a prominent figure in the Black British art scene, and became the founding member and first chairman of Autograph ABP (Association of Black Photographers) in 1988. ⁣⁣⁣ The black male body features a lot in Fani-Kayode's photographs. His work explores questions around sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also addresses themes of displacement and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing in Lagos. ‘Many of the images are seen as sexually explicit – or more precisely, homosexually explicit. I make my pictures homosexual on purpose. Black men from the Third World have not previously revealed either to their own peoples or to the West a certain shocking fact: they can desire each other.’ – Rotimi Fani-Kayode Rotimi Fani-Kayode, from the series Abiku (Born to Die) 1988 © the artist, courtesy Autograph ABP」10月31日 0時49分