Fani-Kayodé was born in Nigeria in 1955 to a family of Yoruba ancestry who left Africa as refugees in 1966 and settled in Britain. He studied in the United States, moved back to London, and died there in 1989. Through the medium of photography, and in collaboration with his partner Alex Hirst, Fani-Kayodé produced a body of work in the 1980s that was not only aesthetically seductive but also seminal in terms of his portrayal of black homosexuality. His images are visually and conceptually provocative in their exploration of eroticism, homophobia, traditions and conventions, and ultimately mortality.

“Both aesthetically and ethically, I  seek to translate my rage and my desire into new images which will undermine conventional perceptions and which may  reveal hidden worlds. Many of the images  are seen as sexually explicit - or more  precisely, homosexually explicit. I make my  picture’s homosexual on purpose. Black men from the Third World have not previously revealed either to their own  people or to the West a certain shocking fact: they can desire each other.”

Eighteen years after his death, this exhibition is a tribute to this visionary and radical African artist, showing 15 color prints edition of ten with a certificate of Autograph ABP London.