James Barnor
Drum cover girl Erlin Ibreck at Trafalgar Square, London, 1966
C-Type Print
201.5 x 220mm
Edition of 50 + 50 APs
Stamped and numbered
£200 (incl. VAT)
©James Barnor, courtesy galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière @james_barnor_archives
Throughout the 1960s James Barnor shot six covers for Drum, a leading lifestyle, culture and politics magazine on the African continent that also served as anti-apartheid platform. By combining studio portraiture and street photography, Barnor’s lens captured the experiences of a vibrant and growing Afro diasporic community in London, playing a key role in placing models of African descent such as Erlin Ibreck on the cover of Drum. Here he captured the experiences of another growing and vibrant ‘Swinging Sixties’ as articulated by the Afro diasporic community in their self-expression thus reclaiming of space and agency.