Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain, Joy Gregory (ed.) (2024).

The article reviews *Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain*, edited by Joy Gregory, which addresses the historical erasure of Black women photographers from art history, institutional exhibitions, and archives. The volume showcases the work of 57 Black women artists, combining photographic portfolios, essays, roundtable discussions, and archival materials to reframe the photographic canon and highlight the intersectional challenges these artists faced. It emphasizes collaborative practices, the political use of the term "Black" in the 1980s and 1990s, and the subversion of dominant visual narratives through experimental and self-defining imagery. The book also reflects on the ongoing need for trans-generational dialogue and sustained recognition of Black British women photographers within art history and contemporary practice.