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Notes on some books, films, music and places.





this is more personal. london specific.
a tiny collection of some of the places & things 
where i found solace, warmth and pleasure in good measure. 

maybe you might too. 

feel free to reach out if you would like to hire me for a project or just say hello.

i have a range of unlisted work too. 

books:
  • a stranger’s pose by emmanuel iduma
  • and then he sang a lullaby by ani kayode somtochukwu
  • sister outsider by audre lorde
  • the african gaze by amy sall
  • the lonely letters by anton crawley
  • last day in lagos by marilyn nance
  • you are your best thing by tarana burke & brene brown
  • sula by toni morrison
  • die by faith ringgold 
  • seesaw by timothy ogene
  • the parable of the sower by octavia e. butler
  • all about love by bell hooks
  • a man of the people by chinua achebe
  • what it means when a man falls from the sky by lesley nneka arimah

cafes:
  • batch baby 
  • breadery
  • kova pattisserie
  • arome 
  • nagare coffee
  • omotesando
  • dark sugars
  • mamasons ice cream
  • be-oom
  • sevente

live music and bars:
  • orii community jam session
  • dalston jazz bar 
  • ninety one living room
  • lower third
  • disrepute
  • the jazz cafe
  • mu
  • cafe koko
  • bambi

stores:
  • oneironaut
  • ronald wiltshire’s pottery 
  • araw london
  • son of a stag
  • twocares
  • outsiders store
  • matchado
  • pages of hackney
  • new beacon books
  • lolwe books
  • reference point

galleries:
  • chisenhale gallery 
  • hope 93 gallery
  • barbican centre
  • corvi-mora
  • twg gallery 
  • ica
  • autograph
  • lisson gallery
  • thomas dane
  • the photographer’s gallery
  • soft crossing
  • studio chapple
  • pippy houldsworth
  • michael werner
  • victoria miro
  • alison jacques
  • pilar corrias
  • gagosian
  • stephen friedman
  • hauser & wirth
  • david zwirner
  • tiwani contemporary
  • studio chapple
  • south london gallery
  • rele gallery
  • gallery fumi

buildings:
  • the cosmic house 
  • sir john soane’s museum
  • leighton house museum
  • the young space
  • second home spitalfields

restaurants:
  • kiln
  • som saa
  • mazi
  • taro
  • yiqi
  • evelyn’s table
  • ikoyi
  • bun house
  • delamina east
  • homeslice pizza
  • 75 slices
  • mukbap
  • broken eggs
  • bistrotheque
  • perilla