Please join us to celebrate the launch of Untold Voices by Chieska Fortune Smith published by Cairo Apartment on Saturday 24th October, 5-7pm.
Untold Voices began with several vintage family photographs that Chieska Fortune Smith discovered at her family home in Japan. Born to an African-American soul singer and a Japanese classical dancer, Fortune Smith has carried a sense of not having a solid grounding since her childhood. By collecting the haunting yet enigmatic moments of everyday life and her vintage family photographs which trace back three generations of her family, she evokes a melancholy as fleeting as a mirage, and transforms them into an exploration of her own roots.
Chieska Fortune Smith is an African-American/Japanese artist based in London. Her practice is deeply rooted in her unique heritage and inspired by old photographs of her parents' early life and courtship, as well as vintage found imagery. After studying international relations and Japanese art history, Fortune Smith lived in Japan for eight years, where she began experimenting with street photography and documenting her close relationships with family and friends. Her photography appears regularly in publications including Vanity Fair, Wallpaper, Rolling Stone, AnOther and commercial clients include Simone Rocha, Roksanda Illincic, and Wales Bonner.
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