Johny Pitts

Nov 3, 2024 | afropean.com | Johny Pitts

Afropean: A Journal is the new limited edition photobook version of Johny Pitts’s multiple award winning Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, which through photographs taken across twenty years, gives an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean favela-like settlement on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty percent Muslim.

Jun 29, 2024 | msn.com | Johny Pitts

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Jun 29, 2024 | theguardian.com | Johny Pitts

If I had to choose a cultural artefact that most underpinned my 1980s childhood, it would be the Andrew Lloyd Webber mega-musical Starlight Express. The show is around the same age as me, and I’ve come to think of it as the prism through which it is possible to unpick more than my own memories, but the dreams and nightmares of the decadent decade that gave birth to it. When Starlight Express launched in 1984 at London’s Apollo theatre, the world had never seen anything like it before.

Oct 22, 2023 | theguardian.com | Johny Pitts

If you’re a geriatric millennial, as I am, the news that Lost in Translation is 20 years old will probably make you feel, simply, geriatric. When you think about it, though, the plot feels its age. An overprivileged middle-aged man (grumpy about earning $2m for a week’s work in Japan) having an affair in a five-star hotel with an overprivileged woman half his age (fresh out of Yale, cadging a free ride to Tokyo from her celeb photographer boyfriend) hardly screams Hollywood zeitgeist in 2023.

Oct 1, 2023 | cntraveller.com | Johny Pitts

Heavily jet-lagged in the lofty, dimly lit lobby of the Park Hyatt Tokyo, surrounded by a team of elegantly suited professionals offering me their cards and politely addressing me as Mr Johny Pitts, I’d achieved something 20 years in the making. I’d broken the fourth wall in reverse, entering a scene out of Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation.