| Description | Gelatin-Silver press and work prints, and some exhibition prints.
The images are a retrospective of Vanley Burke's work on the Afro-Caribbean community on Britain at the time and include images of funerals, black dance groups, African Liberation day celebrations, and the aftermath of disturbances in the streets.
There is also documentary material relating to the exhibition, this is kept in the original order as received by the archive; it arrived in separate folders that had been arranged by Walsall Museum and Art Gallery. |
| AdminHistory | 'The Journey' was a solo Vanley Burke exhibition that not only documented through his photographs "experiences of migration from the Caribbean to Britain", but also functioned as a retrospective of the last 25 years of Vanley Burke's photography. A book was published that co-incided with the exhibition: 'Vanley Burke: A Retrospective' edited by Mark Sealey (ISBN: 0 85315 783 9). As such the prints in this section of the catalogue date from 1993, but are of events from the 1970s onwards.
The exhibition was structured to guide the visitor through different aspects of the experiences and struggles of the Afro-Caribbean community in Birmingham and Britain. The exhibition is a precursor to the Vanley Burke Archive in this respect, and the structure of this catalogue is informed by this exhibition.
The exhibition was primarily photographic, but also included objects such as a suitcase, "packed ready for departure".
It was first held, and was commissioned by Walsall Museum and Art Gallery in 1993, and toured during 1994 to other galleries, including the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol. |