Notes from the editor:

« Afropean: A Journal, takes twenty years of photographs, notebooks, and ephemera documenting the Black experience in Europe between 2004- 2024, through various crises from the wake of 9/11 and the Iran War through the global financial crisis, Brexit, the rise of rightwing populism in the 2010s and Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine in the 2020s. A working Black photographer himself, Johny Pitts self-funded a series of Interrail trips through Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Kyiv, Zagreb, Rome, Marseille, Lisbon and many more places, illuminating often misunderstood and misrepresented Afro-European communities in words and images. Johny Pitts presents an ongoing visual documentation to the lives and cultures of Black Europeans bringing together twenty years of photography, notebooks and ephemera. Adding new layers of understanding of the Black experience in Europe, and spanning cities such as Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Brussels, Amsterdam and Stockholm, Pitts delves even deeper into the lives, histories, and cultures of Afropeans. »