Nathaniel Télémaque is a North West London born & raised visual artist, writer & researcher who photographs and writes about ‘everyday things’ in various urban settings. Bearing witness to mad cities and maverick livelihoods inspires his visual and written practices. His lenses focus on the experiences of young Black adults, creative peers, and notions of urban change in cities.
He recently completed a Geography (practice-related) PhD at University College London and is now a Lecturer in Geography and Social Justice at King’s College London University.
As a member of the Pesolife Art Collective, he also produces and curates various projects with Pesolife collaborators Secaina Hudson & Kalina Blaize - who are both multi-talented singers, songwriters and music producers. Frequently collaborating on distinct projects together, the Pesolife Art Collective is committed to substantively engaging with our audio/visual practices alongside collaborations with educational institutions, companies, community groups, and creative peers.
Please contact:hi@pesolife.com for Photography/Research related enquiries.
“PESOLIFE”
We are a visual art/records collective on a quest for a ‘Pesolife’: a way of living that values substantive/artistic endeavours over the accumulation of capital and materialistic riches.The Pesolife Art Collective is committed to creating substantive audio/visual projects. Our endeavours are guided by our solidarity in taking up creative journeys and maverick processes.
We have been commissioned by various groups and organisations such as Ableton, Birmingham City University and Brent 2020. Additionally our creative works have seen us create recorded songs, beat tapes & music videos. As well as publish books & zines, host exhibitions and live/digital events & workshops.
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RESPECTIVE SOCIALS
‘Everyday Things’ is a project that visualises the experiences of a kinship collective of young Black adults living in White City, Shepherds Bush, West London. The project combines two main methodologies. The first is an archival focused work, aimed at recovering White City’s former imperial and colonial site, the Great White City Exhibition grounds (1908) as well as the site’s more recent histories as a London County Council developed inter-war estate. The second is a form of collaborative photographic research taken up with the kinship collective as well as their social peers. Depictions of young Black adult’s lives are rarely seen in British academic research. Inspired by the work of ‘everyday’ urban essays created by photographers in post-war America and the examinations of British landscapes by Black British photographers. My practice-related research facilitates site-specific dialogues, focused on contemporary and archival visualisations of White City. This body of work also engenders photographic practices capable of intervening in representations of White City, as well as West London based representations of Black life.
Geography (Practice-Related) PhD, produced in collaboration with a kinship collective of young Black adults living in White City, Shepherds Bush West London.The archival records that appear throughout this montage have been recovered via archival research taken up at the Hammersmith and Fulham Local Studies and Archives centre (HFLSAC).
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