In conversation
Rommi Smith in conversation with Dawn Cameron and Colin Grant
Rommi Smith has excavated an overlooked history of black people in Britain in her work and particularly in interpreting a series of extraordinary photos from the archives of the TopFoto agency. Through Smith's carefully researched poetic responses she is changing the story of what we consider the nature of Britain.
2nd February, 2022
courtesy of TopFoto
'[My work has a] profound, embodied, lived engagement with themes around erasure and marginalisation, and my passionate interest in centring voices that have been marginalised.'

Rommi Smith
Rommi Smith is an award-winning writer, performer and academic; seeker and celebrant of flipside and marginalised narratives often hiding in plain sight.
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