72 ppi - Oluwatosin Daniju Photography

Paula Akpan (a bald Black woman with glasses, BGF co-founder) puts a wrist band on a Black girl arriving for the festival. Behind her on the wall is a large poster for the festival, bright orange with white text reading "Black Girl Fest Take up space"

Black Girl Fest

A young woman stands next to a seated young girl, showing her how to knit - the girl looks on, awe-struck. An older woman sits next to the girl, knitting.

Black Girl Fest

Novelist Dorothy Koomson sits in a white armchair, speaking into a mic, next to writer Daniellé DASH, who is looking at Koomson as she speaks. Behind them you can see the corner of a screen which has Dorothy Koomson's name & social media details.

Black Girl Fest

An audience, almost exclusively of Black women, sits smiling and laughing at the stage (off-camera).

Black Girl Fest

A jewellery vendor shows off one of her own necklaces to someone browsing, smiling and touching the necklace that she is wearing, while holding another up to it. Her stall shows various colourful necklaces, and in the background there are many more stalls

Black Girl Fest

Two speakers sit in white chairs - a tall, plus-size woman with a large afro, butterfly-embellished glasses and a purple boa, and a woman with dwarfism, in a beige skirt and blouse, hair back in a bun. The front of a wheelchair is visible to one side.

Black Girl Fest

A joyous audience on their foot, dancing with their left legs raised in synch.

Black Girl Fest

Black Girl Fest

Director of TLC, Aki Schilz, a smiling young woman with straight brown hair in a black jumpsuit, stands next to a young man with curly brown hair and glasses in front of a vertical banner for TLW

TLC (The Literary Consultancy) 25th Anniversary

Aki Schilz, director of TLC, stands at a glass podium in front of a TLC banner, addressing a seated audience, some of who can be seen from behind.

TLC (The Literary Consultancy) 25th Anniversary

Theatre play scene - actress playing a young girl sits atop a curvy climbing frame, arms spread wide, face full of delight as she looks up at a handful of feathers floating down above and around her.

Protest | Northern Stage| Dir. Natalie Ibu

Theatre play scene - low lit with mainly shadows and silhouettes, and deep red lighting, three actresses playing young girls sit still on various parts of the set, a large curvy climbing frame, shaped like a backward S on its face.

Protest | Northern Stage| Dir. Natalie Ibu

Theatre play scene - three actresses playing young girls, dressed in school uniforms, triumphantly hold up signs reading "our special home", "I'm a girl - hear me roar" and "Show racism the red card".

Protest | Northern Stage| Dir. Natalie Ibu

Portrait of a lighthouse owner - Rohan has cropped grey hair, and is wearing a yellow jumper. She is seen through her kitchen window, leaning forward to reach behind her kitchen sink. A number of model lighthouses are in the window.

Rohan

Event - two audience members sit together looking at an issue of Wasafiri magazine, while in the background two members of the Wasafiri staff team talk to each other.

Wasafiri Launch - Windrush: Writing the Scandal

Event - poet James Goodwin (a young man with chest-length locs in a blue t-shirt, wearing a silver chain and black glasses) stands in front of a banner for Wasafiri magazine, hands gesturing as he recites one of his poems to the audience (off-camera).

Wasafiri Launch - Windrush: Writing the Scandal

Event - Wasafri editor, Emily Mercer (a person with short curly brown hair, in khaki-coloured trousers and an aubergine-colour t-shirt) stands in front of a vertical banner for Wasafiri magazine, talking animatedly to the audience (off-camera).

Wasafiri Launch - Windrush: Writing the Scandal

Porttrait - Alia (a woman with brown hair with subtle streaks of red pulled back) sits directly looking into the camera, her legs wide, leaning forward with both hands resting on her cane.

Alia Alzougbi

Theatre play scene - 4 young women kneel/crouch, one in front, hand to her chest, the other three spread slightly behind her, all looking up/forward in their own directions, possibly distressed.

I, Lord | Response Ability Theatre| Dir. Nell Bailey

Low light theatre play scene - a priest stands partly in shadow, partly in a beam of light; closer to camera, two young women stand, one holding a sheet of paper, the other looking down, both out of focus and in shadow.

I, Lord | Response Ability Theatre| Dir. Nell Bailey

Portrait - a young person with wavy dark brown hair, the front half pulled up into a pony tail, looks serenely over their shoulder into the camera, sunlight falling on their face.

Sage

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