He moved to Britain in 1956 to live with his parents in Notting Hill. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.īorn in Kingston, Jamaica in 1944, Roland 'Charlie' Phillips grew up with his grandparents in St.
'Okhai Ojeikere/ Victoria and Albert Museum, London. HD-849/75 (Abebe) from the series Hairstyles, photograph by J. The series of photographs, which includes both popular and ceremonial styles, is of historic and anthropological significance, as well as aesthetic value. Over the course of his life Ojeikere recorded more than a thousand hairstyles, as well as traditional headties. He travelled across Nigeria with the council and began to document Nigerian culture, beginning a series of photographs documenting Nigerian hairstyles in 1968. Ojeikere became a member of the Nigeria Art Council in 1967. He later worked as a photographer for Africa's first television station, The Western Nigerian Broadcasting Services, and for West African Publicity in Lagos from 1963 – 75. He became a darkroom assistant for the Ministry of Information in Ibadan in 1954, where he worked until 1961. By the age twenty he was one of the only photographers in his region. ’Okhai Ojeikere (1930 – 2014) was born in the village of Ovbiomu-Emai in south-western Nigeria. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund. © Raphael Albert/ Autograph ABP/ Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The Harder They Come from the portfolio Black Beauty Pageants, photograph by Raphael Albert, about 1970, England. He remained committed to celebrating the Caribbean communities in his London area throughout his life, often taking home-studio portrait photographs for local people. A 2007 exhibition brought new appreciation of his work as a form of social documentation and a record of black British style.
He organised and photographed pageants celebrating black British beauty throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He was often employed to take photographs of black British beauty pageants, and in 1974 he established the Miss Teenager and Miss West Indies in Great Britain contests. Albert then became a freelance photographer working for black British newspapers like West Indian World. After moving to London in the 1950s, he studied photography at Ealing Technical College whilst working part-time at Lyons cake factory. Raphael Albert (1935 – 2009) was born on the Caribbean island of Grenada.
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