Josef Adamu had a vision for his creative agency, Sunday School. According to him, it “offers unique perspectives on identity through visual narratives and experiences. Operating within the worlds of both commercial photography and art, Sunday School brings together photographers, videographers, stylists, and models to push the boundaries of visual storytelling within Africa and across the diaspora.”
And now, his agency has taken a whole new stage: for the first time, the brand‘s first exhibit, Feels Like Home, is now on display at the AGO.
About Sunday School’s Feels Like Home
Sunday School’s exhibition officially opened at the AGO on May 6 and features photographs from three of the brand’s recent series from a range of photographers and creatives: The Hair Appointment (2018), Ten Toes Down (2021) and Jump Ball (2019 – ongoing).
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The photos and video in The Hair Appointment “offer a poignant depiction of hair braiding – be it in one’s living room as a child or at a salon – as a cultural signifier of Black womanhood. In these images, home is a shared experience, something both familiar and comforting,” according to the press release.
Kreshonna Keane’s Ten Toes Down photo series offers a look at a ballerina posing in her own home, and “builds on creative work Sunday School undertook with the British clothing manufacturer Freed of London, one of the first brands to mass produce and market skin tone pointe shoes for Black, Asian and mixed-race dancers.”
Produced by Toronto Native O’Shane Howard, Jump Ball: Toronto “features young men in both traditional African attire and street-style clothing posed on the basketball courts of St. Jamestown. The series underscores the ways in which many Black communities navigate the nuances of identity, where home is not tied to one specific location.” Howard’s work is accompanied by Joshua Kissi’s Jump Ball: Mighty Migration, where basketball is a character in various family portraits.
Sunday School’s Feels Like Home is now on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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