Yemisi Blake

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Haringey Remembered

The London Borough of Haringey has been my home for twenty-seven years. It’s a place I have seen shift and change throughout my childhood and adult life. Walking the streets of Haringey, countless memories come to mind of experiences that I had as a child and young adult. These memories they are vivid, often peppered with the actual words of conversations, feelings of connection, pleasure and discomfort. This project is a photographic inquiry into the blurred line between the body, place and memory. It is an exercise in imagination, anchored in a physical journey around the borough of my birth.

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Yemisi Blake is an artist and researcher. His work is concerned with urban narratives and methodologies of making. He collaborates with individuals, groups and organisations to make work for publication, exhibition and installation.

Yemisi has been commissioned to create participatory and collaborative projects in the UK and abroad, including: 100, (Art on the Underground, London, 2015), Spirit of Pelourinho (British Council & Southbank Centre, Brazil, 2013) and Burma Now (British Council Myanmar, 2011). Yemisi studied BA Sociology at Goldsmiths University (2005-2008) and MA Photography & Urban Cultures (2012-2014).