Werker 2 A Gestural History of the Young Worker pulitzer John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah

To coincide with the ICA’s 70th anniversary in 2016

but with humour and nonchalance

threads and nail polish punctuate the works surface

and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake

Werker 2 A Gestural History of the Young Worker pulitzer John AkomfrahSpector Books, 2023, Softcover, 95 pages, 32 22 cm Drawing inspiration from the Worker Photography Movement of the 1920s, which saw photographers collaborating with workers and trade unions to visualize societal and political conditions from a working class perspective, Werker Collective reconsiders the relationship between labour and its photographic representation in the past and in the present. Werker 2: A Gestural History of the Young Worker takes