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Armet Francis (born in 1945) is a Jamaican-born photographer and publisher who lives in London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/armet-francis )〕 He has been documenting and chronicling the lives of people of the African diaspora for more than 40 years and his assignments have included work for ''The Times Magazine'', ''The Sunday Times Supplement'', BBC and Channel 4.〔Mia Morris and Maureen Roberts, ("It is our Black History Month - Passing the Baton on" ), Black History Month.〕 He has exhibited worldwide and his work is in collections including those of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of London.〔 ==Biography== Armet Francis was born in St Elizabeth, in rural Jamaica. He was left in the care of his grandparents at the age of three when his parents moved to London, where Francis joined them seven years later in 1955.〔Sean O'Hagan, ("Black, British and proud: 50 years of struggle and triumph" ), ''The Guardian'', 16 February 2015.〕 After leaving school at 14, he worked for an engineering firm in Bromley, before finding a job as an assistant in a West End photographic studio, and going on to forge a career as freelance photographer for fashion magazines and advertising campaigns.〔 He has said: "In 1969 I embarked on a lifetime project.... I was living and working in the first world, materially that is, but becoming more aware of inequalities to the third world, to be more specific the Black World. As a Black photographer I started to realise I had no social documentary images in my work.... I went back (Jamaica ) in 1969.... I had been away 14 years, it would take another 14 years to make sense of this project."〔("Biographies: Photo Evolution 2000" ), Artslink.co.za, 18 August 2000.〕 Following his participation at Festac '77 (the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture)〔("Festac '77 — Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1977" ), Diaspora Artists.〕 in Lagos, Nigeria, he became devoted to photographing the people of the African diaspora. He became the first Black photographer to have a solo exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery when ''The Black Triangle'' series was exhibited there in 1983.〔 He published a book also entitled ''The Black Triangle'' the following year, and ''Children of the Black Triangle'' was produced four years later.〔(Armet Francis author page ) at Amazon.〕 In 1988 he was a co-founder of Autograph Association of Black Photographers.〔 He was the official photographer for Africa '05, a major celebration of African arts held throughout 2005 in the UK.〔Molara Wood, ("roots to reckoning" ), 26 February 2006.〕〔Siobhan Silbert, ("Past in photos" ), ''Hackney Today'', Issue 179, 10 March 2008, p. 21.〕 Francis was one of three pioneering Jamaican-born photographers — the others being Charlie Phillips and Neil Kenlock — whose work was showcased in the 2005–06 exhibition ''Roots to Reckoning''. Photographs by Francis featured prominently in ''Staying Power'', the collaborative project mounted in 2015 by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Black Cultural Archives.〔("Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience, 1950s-1990s" ), BBC, 16 February 2015.〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armet Francis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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