Afropean: A Journal - Johny Pitts queer “As Real As It Gets”

“As Real As It Gets” is a photography project by Thomas Nolf exploring humanity’s need for escape through aviation culture

The shape and cyclical nature of these natural rhythms gave rise to another human invention

Nous avons pensé ce nouveau numéro comme une « boîte à outils » pleine des expériences de personnes qui ont tenté de faire des choses par ielleux-même

exposing the mysteries of how matter and being appear to emerge from nothing

d'outils et de techniques utiles

Afropean: A Journal - Johny Pitts queer “As Real As It Gets”Afropean: A Journal This work 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