Ajamu Studios

This one-day studio course with the artist Ajamu X @ajamustudios explores the male nude as a central subject in fine art photography, with a focus on light, form, ethics, and the development of a personal visual language. Working with a life model in a controlled studio environment, the course combines discussion, demonstration, and practical shooting to support a considered and confident approach to photographing the body. The session emphasises both technical understanding and ethical awareness, encouraging you to develop a thoughtful and respectful studio practice. Booking available via the link in our bio.

Who gets to decide which queer histories survive? Join @hastingsqueerhistory for a conversation on queer memory and visibility with artist and archivist Ajamu X, historian and educator Syeda Ali. 
 Whose stories get told?
How do we keep queer presence alive through time?
 Tuesday 12th May
7–9pm
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
£5 / £3 TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW! Link in @hastingsqueerhistory bio. Part of the Lemons, Laws and Secret Doors exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery until 30 August 2026. 🍋⚖️🚪 Lemons, Laws & Secret Doors is created by Hastings Queer History Collective and produced by Home Live Art in partnership with Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (@heritagefunduk ), Arts Council England (@aceagrams ), Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (@esmeefairbairn ), Home Live Art (@homeliveart ) and Hastings Museum & Art Gallery (@hastingsmuseum ). #HastingsQueerHistory #NationalLottery #HeritageFund

Welcome to our life drawing family @aazar.lifemodel and as always excited to be working in colloboration with @pckdlnch

Join us on Friday, May 8 for the Symposium accompanying Exposure: Black Queer Visual Constellations at the Pembroke Center, Brown University. For more info see then link in bio

TRUE STORY Welcome to tonights main event! Fighting out of the shadows of South London.... Borne from the legacy of a notorious POC kink night..(if you know, you know) A name whispered, a presence felt, never duplicated, often imitated, fighting out of his own corner THOOOOORNE! They stepped into the ring last year… and left with the victory. Hailing from up North. Huddersfield bred, Chapeltown raised.... A former seggs worker. A fighter of pleasure… and profit And before the name… before the legend… Thorne wore many titles… DIAMOND PORN STAR… 1992! MISS TISSUE… 1993! MASTER AAAB… 1998! MX MAVIS… 2023! And now… stepping fully into their power… THORNE… 2025… 2026… AND BEYOND! MAKE SOME NOISE!!! 🥊🔥 Let the games begin... ---------- Sitter: Thorne (@ajamustudios ) Tog: @cjswabyphotography Location: @12roundsboxing

Queering History: Who Gets Remembered? A conversation on how queer histories can be uncovered and shared. Hastings Queer History Collective members Kai Bossom and Sophie Fuller are joined by Ajamu X and Syeda Ali. Together they explore ways to uncover and share the histories of queer spaces and queer people, with a particular emphasis on marginalised queer communities. About the Panel Ajamu X (@ajamustudios ) (HONS FRPS) is a darkroom / fine art photographic artist and archivist whose work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and alternative spaces worldwide. Syeda Ali has taught history in London and Beijing, promoting diversity within the history curriculum, and championing equality and diversity more broadly in schools. Sophie Fuller (@sophie_fuller_writer ) is a writer and scholar who plays with words to create worlds, ask questions and provoke thought. As a musicologist, she explores the ways people have used music to make sense of their worlds, remembering the lives, careers and music-making of those we are in danger of forgetting. Kai Bossom (@enbaeshoots ) is a Hastings-based queer historian and member of the Hastings Queer History Collective (since 2022). Kai is passionate about recovering queer stories hidden within local Hastings history. When: Tuesday 12th May 2026 Time: 7 - 9PM Where: Hastings Museum & Art Gallery Ticket Price: £5/£3 TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW! Head to the link in the bio of @hastingsqueerhistory to grab yours. Part of the Lemons, Laws and Secret Doors exhibition event programme from the Hastings Queer History Collective. 🍋⚖️🚪 Lemons, Laws & Secret Doors is produced by Home Live Art in partnership with Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (@heritagefunduk ), Arts Council England (@aceagrams ), Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (@esmeefairbairn ), Home Live Art (@homeliveart ) and Hastings Museum & Art Gallery (@hastingsmuseum ). #HastingsQueerHistory #NationalLottery #HeritageFund

KINK and DRAW We are looking forward to welcoming James Price to our next session. 5th May 2026 Participants are free (and encouraged) to dress in their favorite -kink, cosplay etc. Changing area is available. @pckdlnch @fromtheliferoom @slightlypricey @ajamustudios

👠: MY QUEENZZ! 🪩: We have missed u, but don’t worry! MISS KITTY is BACK on Saturday, May 9th @cribpvd — WORK! Tix in bio hons! ☀️: Start the summer off correctly with blessings from the don diva @dee.diggs , coming to us from NYC!! 🛼: Also in the mix is the earthly delight, theeeeeee Providence Living Legend and local power house DJ ROLLER 😻: And MISS KITTY resident @yo.soy.lunatica is gonna lay down the groove. 🥵: Hosted by the legendary photographer AJAMU X @ajamustudios with leatherzaddy FOX ROSA @fox_rosa.x . 📞: Call 1-888-94-PURRR (no literally, call haha) to find out how MISS KITTY LLC can help you log into your alter ego. 🦄: MISS KITTY is a party for all divas, baddies, dolls, twinks, twunks, twanks, furries, punks, femmes, nbs, studs, sissies at the picnic, art fags, beardos, queerdos, nerds, freaks and leathersexuals over the age of 21. // SOUND BY SYMPOSIUM RECORDS // // ART BY @michaelmagnan ///

Join me for this unique hands on photographic playshop, for the curious, the daring , and those ready to take their ideas further. Date: Saturday 16th May 2026 11:00- 17:00 Price £150 + £13.22 Sales fee ( Eventbrite) Scan QR code for more details or DB

An Exquisite Sound of Paper XXII, 2025 "For too often, the work of black queer photographers working in the darkroom /studio is flattened out to staid ideas of identity - thinking and representation. The photographic act, process, and production is overlooked, even though they are intimately entwined. An Exquisite Sound of Paper privileges the sensual, material attributes of process and making , whilst celebrating black queer sensuality and intimacy" Medium: Platinum Print Paper size 16 X 20 Inches, printed area is approximately 14 X18 inches Paper: Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag Thanks to @rjprintlab My Muses @hakeemkaxeem @ramelusherwood_

Mohammed. Z. Rahman Artist @m.z.r.supply Mohammed Z Rahman (he/they) is a British-Bengali artist based in London and is represented by Phillida Reid. His work puts socio-political and personal histories in conversation through the lens of the domestic. Mohammed works across, painting, installation, sculpture, text and zines.

Our next life Drawinf Session is Tuesday 21st April. Please, share with your networks. @pckdlnch @leocrane77 @callumsterling