Eddie Otchere

Sometimes I shoot on infra red film to see if my subjects are reptilian. #darkouthere

Catch me outside Kinfolk in Brooklyn on the first Thursday in March 2018. This one is going to be hot and sizzling, mono e mono with LA's Paul Chan. Showcasing all my illest visual testaments blown up to New York sized proportions alongside our new but vintage ready to wear S/S 2018 collection. Employing the latest digital fabric printers we've created photo machine washable fabric prints and sewn them onto vintage garments. The results are fresh and fly... Cop yours! (at Kinfolk)

Launching tonight in Brixton's premier record shop is a selection of framed prints from the archive. As you see here, their up and ready to hang. Each print is priced at £200 each. The Black Star has already been sold, so make sure you pass by and cop yours. All prints are hand printed in the darkroom and sold in editions of 1 of 1. Having said that the Omar and Biggie are not darkroom prints but they produced using material which both rare, archival and unique. The display will be up till February but as pieces are sold they'll be replaced with other equally banging works. So deck the halls with Biggie Smalls! (at Pure Vinyl Records - Brixton)

(Darkwah) never sleeps

When in Brixton, check out the Passage Way Pop in store underneath Brixton railway station. (at Brixton railway station)

10 years ago I produced a show at the National Portrait Gallery with Sonia Boyce called Devotional. I wanted to reconcile her artwork entitled Devotional with the gallery's collection. We managed to put the drawings and photographs of 18 Black British Songstresses on display for the first time in its history. We pulled an all nighter, as the idea was to have Sonia draw the names of every chart topping soulstress of the 20th century on the gallery walls along with photographs. Our common cause was erasure, the slow and steady removal of black women from the history of British popular music. From Sade to Winifred Atwell, our mission was to share their achievements and iconic portraits. We started work at 6:00pm on a Friday night and opened the show at 9:00am Saturday morning. On my way home it was announced that she'd been awarded the MBE for her services to the arts. (at National Portrait Gallery)

Most people are other people. I am not just a photographer, I have been for the last 10 years an archivist, curator and wing man for @charlierootsfoto Over the years we've conspired to put his stories out there, to organise his lifetime in photography in order to make it accessible and understandable. Every photographer becomes a story teller by the end of their photographic career they will be overwhelmed by all that they've seen and captured. There will be emotions they will not be able to contain once you've reminded them, a photograph can do that. This picture of Jimmi Hendrix for example I found behind a radiator in his bedroom, it's taken from a contact sheet from the Isle of Wight festival in 1971. Having archived all his work I had never seen any negatives for this festival and so I asked. Where are they, and where are the prints. Charlie had no answer. I found out eventually that upon his return from Italy in the 70's between squats and girlfriends kicking him out the negs were lost. A contact sheet is all that remains. I'm grateful there is some evidence of Jimmi tearing it up but weary for all photographers. No Print. No Legacy. I am actively engaged in working with any and every every end of career photographer. They need to be cared for. Their stories need to be told, not just the glory but the tears, the heartache and their dreams. #brightroomsphotocorp (at Peckham Levels)

Over the last few weeks, the campaign to raise funds for a darkroom in Peckham has led to many amazing, insightful and heartfelt conversations. The results of which are intensifying our struggle to reach our goal and create a safe space for photographic values, traditional practice and modernity. In our Kickstarter is a talk with photographer Liz Johnson Artur, pictured here and her printer Klaus Klaude. They are living testaments of the struggle photographic practitioners have had since the 80's to define their craft against a back drop of art indifference and commercial determinism. Liz is a spellbinding photographer, one of the greatest practitioners of reportage portrait photography. Klaus is a deep printer who over the years has come to re-define monochromatic printing. Let them talk and you will realise the struggle is real and more importantly we should no longer be atomised. We are compound creatures, we must as a collective pull together, talk, realise we have common enemies and as a union of photographers tear down the obstacles that hide our living contributions and put an end to the bullshit that's driving us from digital pillars and art posts. (at Peckham Levels)

Five artists all captured in New York. Available to own as prints in 2 sizes, large or small. Follow link in the bio for more details. (at New York, New York)

#silvermax100 (at Process Supplies)

Divergent light sources, modern alchemy and photographic praxis, this is the founding trinity of the Bright Rooms. (at Peckham Levels)

Today in consumer culture is a dark day. And in pure loathing of this day, I present: The All New Black & White Friday. A day where hand made prints are traded. Here are my favourite Black & White pick of American cats in London., 5 portraits of icons whom I consider the greatest of all time. I challenge every photographer to present their 5 icons and set the wheels in motion for Black & White Friday. Work starts next week, when I'll be building a darkroom at The Peckham Levels. Here I'll create this special edition. You can too. Join me, bring your negs. Immortalise your heroes in print, order yours in our Kickstarter, search BRIGHTROOMS. Photographs are available in 2 sizes. Small prints are £35, large prints are £350. Make Black & White Friday every Friday and remember, you shop therefore you exist! #hipobjetdart (at Peckham Levels)

Today, lets celebrate a legend. The most entertaining man I'd ever met. The Old Dirty Bastard. It was the power of religious iconography that made me want to produce a show where I printed my most iconic portraits of all 9 original members of the Wu Tang Clan. These prints are now up for sale. You will see why when you follow the Kickstarter link in my biog. At £100 each, it's a steal but imagine you hung all 9 prints in your office, boardroom, man cave or chapel and you could channel their life force through their iconography. (at Wu Tang Financial)

Taken from the archive of Charlie Phillips, a momento mori of a funeral in West London captured in the early 70's. This print is available as a reward in our Kickstarter to raise funds for a new purpose built black and white darkroom. Please follow the Kickstarter link in the biog. We'll be releasing more investment grade photographic darkroom prints in the next few weeks.. (at Kensal Rise Cemetery)

(Darkwah)