Tue 16 April 2026
18:00 – 20:00
POST, Second Floor, Industrial House, Conway Street, BN3 3LW
Booking essential: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/post/2019568
We are thrilled to be hosting Syd Shelton (born 1947) for our fourth Artist Talk of 2026. Syd Shelton is a British photographer who documented the Rock Against Racism movement and his work is held in the collections of Tate and the V&A Museum.
‘The Graphic Argument – 50 years of an activist photographer’
In this talk Syd will reflect on his rich career as an activist photographer and his fight for racial and class justice, which has been the driving force dominating the last fifty years of his subjective photographic practice.
In the early 1970s, after studying fine art at Wakefield College of Art, Syd began his photography practice following a move to Australia where he worked as a freelance photojournalist for newspapers such as Nation Review, Tribune, and Digger. In 1975 he had his first solo photographic exhibition at the Sydney Film-makers Cooperative. Syd returned to London in 1976 and established the design and photography partnership Hot Pink Heart/Red Wedge Graphics which evolved into his current company Graphicsi.
Syd become one of the key activists in the Rock Against Racism movement (RAR). He was a photographer and one of the designers of the RAR magazine Temporary Hoarding (1976 to 1981). In 2015 the book Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism was published by Autograph to accompany the touring exhibition of the same name. A new edition of the book was published by Rare Bird Books in 2022.
Syd will be signing and selling copies of ‘Rock Against Racism’ after the talk.
