Ten.8: photographic journal

Our vitrine display on the second floor in Harrison Library showcases the photography magazine Ten.8

Ten.8 was founded in the Birmingham in 1979. One of its founders Derek Bishton said “Ten.8 began as a magazine with the stated aim of providing a forum for West Midlands-based photographers to come together and share images and ideas.” Photographers who contributed to Ten-8 include Brian Homer, Rhonda Wilson, Vanley Burke, Sunil Gupta, and Eddie Chambers (from Wolverhampton's own BLK art group). 

Coming out quarterly, each issue would focus on a particular theme. Professor Stuart Hall (himself an editor) described it as “the journal which has most systematically explored the relationship between how we represent the world photographically, the knowledge which these images produce and their implications for power and politics.”

Ten.8 explored themes of class, feminism, racial social justice, and intellectualism, especially promoting community activism in the West Midlands.  

A-N Magazine includes the current exhibition all about Ten.8:Afterimage at the Walsall Art Gallery in it’s list of must see exhibitions if you want to find out more about this historic publication.