Armet Francis

Armet Francis (amụrụ 29 Jenụwarị 1945) bụ onye na-ese foto na onye mbipụta onye Jamaica biri na London kemgbe 1950s. Ọ na-edekọ ma na-edekọ akụkọ ndụ ndị bi na Africa kemgbe ihe karịrị afọ 40 na ọrụ ya gụnyere ọrụ maka Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Supplement, BBC na Channel 4.

O gosila ụwa niile na ọrụ ya dị na mkpokọta gụnyere nke Victoria & Albert Museum na Museum of London. Otu n'ime foto ya kacha mara amara bụ "Self Portrait in Mirror" nke 1964."Best photographs from the V&A collection, in pictures", The Daily Telegraph, 5 April 2017.

 Akụkọ ndụ 
A mụrụ Armet Francis na Saint Elizabeth Parish, n'ime ime obodo Jamaica, n'afọ 1945. A hapụrụ ya n'aka nne na nna ya ochie mgbe ọ dị afọ atọ mgbe ndị mụrụ ya kwagara London, England, ebe Francis sonyeere ha afọ asaa ka e mesịrị na 1955. Mgbe a gbara ya ajụjụ ọnụ maka British Library's Oral History of British Photography, Francis kwuru banyere itolite dị ka naanị nwa ojii n'ụlọ akwụkwọ dị na London Docklands."Oral history at the British Library: what else has been happening?", National Life Stories: Review and Accounts 2013/2014, British Library, p. 7. Mgbe ọ hapụsịrị ụlọ akwụkwọ mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na anọ, ọ rụrụ ọrụ na ụlọ ọrụ injinia dị na Bromley, tupu ọ chọta ọrụ dị ka onye enyemaka na ụlọ ọrụ foto West End, ma gaa n'ihu na-arụ ọrụ dị ka Onye na-ese foto n'onwe ya maka magazin ejiji na mkpọsa mgbasa ozi.

O kwuru, sị: "N'afọ 1969, amalitere m ọrụ ndụ m niile .... M na-ebi ma na-arụ ọrụ na ụwa mbụ, n'ụzọ ihe onwunwe ya bụ, ma na-amatakwu enweghị aha na ụwa nke atọ, iji kọwaa kpọmkwem banyere Black World. Dị ka onye na-ese foto ojii, amalitere m ịghọta na enweghị m ihe oyiyi mmekọrịta ọha na eze na ọrụ m .... M laghachiri [na Jamaica] na 1969 .... Apụwo m afọ 14, ọ ga-ewe afọ 14 ọzọ iji mee uche. nke oru ngo a." N'iso nsonye ya na Festac '77 (Ememme Nkà na Omenala Ụwa nke Abụọ na nke Africa) na Lagos, Nigeria, ọ malitere ịse foto ndị bi na Africa.. "Festac '77 – Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1977", Diaspora Artists.

Ọ ghọrọ onye Black mbụ na-ese foto nwere ihe ngosi onwe ya na The Photographers' Gallery na London mgbe egosiri usoro Black Triangle n'ebe ahụ na 1983.  O bipụtara akwụkwọ akpọrọ The Black Triangle n'afọ sochirinụ, e mepụtara Children of the Black Triangle afọ anọ ka e mesịrị. Ọ bụ onye na-ese foto na mbipụta nyocha nke Ten.8 vol. 2, no. 3, 1992, nke akpọrọ Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s.

N'afọ 1988, Francis bụ onye guzobere Association of Black Photographers (nke bụzi Autograph ABP).  Ọ bụ onye na-ese foto maka Africa '05, nnukwu emume nka Africa nke emere n'afọ 2005 na UK. Francis bụ otu n'ime ndị ọsụ ụzọ atọ a mụrụ na Jamaica - ndị ọzọ bụ Charlie Phillips na Neil Kenlock - ndị e gosipụtara ọrụ ha na ngosi 2005/2006 Roots to Reckoning na Museum of London,  Molara Wood, "roots to reckoning", 26 February 2006. nke na 2009 site n'enyemaka nke Art Fund nwetara "Roots to Recking archive", nke nwere foto 90 nke obodo ndị isi ojii nke London site na 1960 ruo 1980.Kate Smith, "Black History Month 2005 – From Roots To Reckoning In Photos", Culture24, 30 September 2005.Qiana Mestrich, "Afro-Caribbeans in UK: Roots to Reckoning Photo Archive at the Museum of London", Dodge & Burn, 17 June 2014.

British Library gbara Francis ajụjụ ọnụ (C459/214) na 2013 maka akụkọ ihe mere eme nke British Photography. "Photography | Francis, Armet (1 of 6) Oral History of British Photography", The British Library, 2013.  Retrieved 1 February 2018.

Foto Francis gosipụtara n'ụzọ pụtara ìhè na Staying Power, ọrụ mmekorita nke Victoria na Albert Museum (V&A) na Black Cultural Archives guzobere na 2015."Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience, 1950s–1990s", BBC, 16 February 2015.Sean O'Hagan, "Black, British and proud: 50 years of struggle and triumph", The Guardian, 16 February 2015."Staying Power", Art Fund. "Ihe oyiyi mbụ na-adọrọ mmasị na V&A museum bụ onye na-ese foto na Jamaica Armet Francis's Self-portrait in Mirror (1964), ihe oyiyi dị nso na nke ziri ezi na-egosi Armet na-etinye foto ya kpọmkwem n'ihu enyo, "ka onye nyocha maka Culture Whisper,  ebe Brennavan Sritharan kwuru na British Journal of Photography: "Self-portraiture bụ ihe dị n'okpuru isiokwu, na Armet Francis onwe ya dị nro ma na-eduga ihe ngosi ahụ. ""Insider's Guide: Staying Power, V&A", Culture Whisper,Brennavan Sritharan, "Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s–1990s – Review", British Journal of Photography, 9 April 2015.

Na Febụwarị 2022, a kpọrọ Francis aha na ndepụta CasildART nke ndị Black British isii kachasị elu, n'akụkụ Charlie Phillips, James Barnor, Neil Kenlock, Pogus Caesar na Vanley Burke.

 Ihe ngosi 

 Ihe ngosi onwe onye 

 The Black Triangle: Ndị Afrịka bi na mba ndị ọzọ, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1983

 Ihe ngosi ìgwè 

 Ntụgharị uche nke Ahụmahụ Ndị Ojii: 10 Ndị na-ese foto ojii, Brixton Art Gallery, London, 1986
 Mgbanwe okpueze: ndị na-ese ihe n'Afrịka, Eshia na Caribbean na Britain, 1966-1996, Caribbean Cultural Center, Studio Museum na Harlem, 1997; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 1997
 Mgbọrọgwụ na-atụle: foto nke Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock na Charlie Phillips, Museum of London, London, 2005/6 
 Ike Nọgide: Foto nke Ahụmahụ Black British, 1950s - 1990s, Black Cultural Archives, London, 2015; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2015. 
 Welie, Stand Up Now, Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House London, 2019 
 Ndụ n'etiti agwaetiti: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now, Tate Britain, 2021/2022 

 Akwụkwọ 

 Akwụkwọ 

 The Black Triangle: Ndị Afrịka Diaspora. Mkpụrụ, 1985.  
 Ụmụ nke Black Triangle. Africa World, 1989.   ISBN 978-0865431300

 Akwụkwọ ụmụaka 

 Ịgụ na Rhymes. Mkpụrụ, 1990.   ISBN 9780951059845.  Ọ bụ Francis na Olga Graham haziri ma dezie ya.
 Oge Carnival. Mkpụrụ, 1990.   ISBN 9780951059852

 Akwụkwọ ndị Francis nyere 

 Mgbọrọgwụ maka ngụkọ - foto nke Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock, Charlie Phillips. Mkpụrụ, 2005. Ihe ngosi katalọgụ na iwebata Mike Phillips. ISBN 0-95105-988-2

 Nchịkọta 
A na-enwe ọrụ Francis na nchịkọta ọha na eze ndị a:

 Victoria na Albert Museum, London: mbipụta 25 (dị ka nke Ọktoba 2018) 
 Ebe Ngosi Ihe Mgbe Ochie nke London, London

 Ebem si dee 

 Njikọ mpụga 

 "Armet Francis", V & A.
 "Armet Francis", Autograph ABP.
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