Vanley Burke's work is regarded as the greatest photographic record of African Caribbean people in post-war Britain, cap...
Vanley Burke's work is regarded as the greatest photographic record of African Caribbean people in post-war Britain, capturing its evolving cultural landscape and social history over the past four decades. Mr Burke came to the UK with his mother to live in Handsworth, Birmingham, where he began capturing the lives of the community surrounding him. He is now working with black artists in Gloucester to create a black history of the city and will be a guest speaker at the Glouc...ester History Festival on 17 April. "In the 60s and 70s the way that black people were represented was in derogatory statements like 'lazy' or 'go back home'," Mr Burke said, "People came to Britain to serve in the two world wars and contribute to this country, but they were not being represented in a meaningful way. "I was interested in tackling that, because I did not see the life that I was living, and of people in my community, reflected in the media."
Black News 
Vanley Burke's work is regarded as the greatest photographic record of African Caribbean people in post-war Britain, capturing its evolving cultural landscape and social history over the past four decades. Mr Burke came to the UK with his mother to live in Handsworth, Birmingham, where he began capturing the lives of the community surrounding him. He is now working with black artists in Gloucester to create a black history of the city and will be a guest speaker at the Glouc...ester History Festival on 17 April. "In the 60s and 70s the way that black people were represented was in derogatory statements like 'lazy' or 'go back home'," Mr Burke said, "People came to Britain to serve in the two world wars and contribute to this country, but they were not being represented in a meaningful way. "I was interested in tackling that, because I did not see the life that I was living, and of people in my community, reflected in the media."
