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2 unusual facts about Vanley Burke


Vanley Burke

During two visits to South Africa, in 1990 then in 1996, Vanley photographed the life of black South Africans just after Mandela's release from prison and the subsequent ANC celebrations hosted and attended by Nelson Mandela for the Anti-Apartheid veterans.

Vanley's first notable exhibition “Handsworth from the Inside” was held at the Ikon Gallery Birmingham and then the Commonwealth Institute in London in 1983.



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Break In The Seal

The images of New York are taken by Pogus Caesar in the tough areas of Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem and Queens, Vanley Burke's photographs are of Handsworth, an inner city area of Birmingham.