Welcome to Black Archives Sweden,
a contemporary archive on Afro-Swedish experiences

Open call

Black Archives Sweden is now accepting submissions from the public to our ongoing project on family archives.

Alicia Samson

What is your relationship to your family archive: photographs, films, sound collections, memories, oral histories? CLAY HOLDS MEMORY Photographer: Alicia…

What is your relationship to your family archive:…

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Silke Henriksson

With mommy and daddy in Gambia. Around 1996. Photographer: Unknown/family. With grandma in Bakau - 96.Photographer: Unknown/family. On Brännö with…

With mommy and daddy in Gambia. Around 1996.…

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Aron Zahran

Wedding picture of Salim and Samia Zahran. Husby, 24/5- 97. Photographer: Anna Svensson. Derek [with] Mohammed and son Aron. 1995.…

Wedding picture of Salim and Samia Zahran. Husby,…

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A picture of Black couple posing for a portrait. The woman holds a baby on her lap

Marcia Harvey Isaksson

What is your relationship to your family archive: photographs, films, sound collections, memories, oral histories? Due to my role as…

What is your relationship to your family archive:…

  • Interview
A grey poster with the text archival frequencies and decolonising the archive on. The text is written in black

Archival Frequencies: Decolonising the Archive

What does it mean to decolonise the archive and is it possible? What do we do with our past and…

What does it mean to decolonise the archive…

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An image of a black dad and his newborn baby

Agnese Noah

Dad and I resting by the water after the long journey here. Taken in the summer of 1991. Photographer: Mum…

Dad and I resting by the water after…

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Bild på 3 mixade barn- 2 flickor och en pojke.

Lovisa Fahlgren

In this picture I am on the right and my brother, on the left. We are sitting in our maternal…

In this picture I am on the right…

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A grey poster with the text Archival Frequency Episode 2 Lynnée Denise on. There is also the logos of the funders of the episode and Black Archives Sweden.

Archival Frequencies: DJ Lynnée Denise

Do we ever think of sampling as an act of archiving? What is Black music? What happens when we migrate…

Do we ever think of sampling as an…

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Jasmine Sjöberg Sidibe

On the first photo you see me and my mum. Date: 1995-07-19. Photographer: Grandmother. On the second photo you see…

On the first photo you see me and…

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A grey-colored poster with the text Archival Frequencies Arkivet för Rosa Brus

Archival Frequencies: Arkivet för Rosa Brus

Is there space for noise in our archives? Are there queer wavelengths? What acoustic feedback do we hear in our…

Is there space for noise in our archives?…

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Nemma Sayed Abdu 

Photo taken by Mum Rahma. Year 1998. A photo of my little brother who had recently been born. Which was…

Photo taken by Mum Rahma. Year 1998. A…

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A Black child on a Dale horse

Ellen Aduofua Bernadsson

Ellen Aduofua Bernardsson on her first bike. 3-4 years old. In front of family friends Anita and Olle's house. Location:…

Ellen Aduofua Bernardsson on her first bike. 3-4…

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Mariama Jobe

1996. Mariama Jobe and her mother. Fatou Ann appears to be at a baptism. It is probably Mariama's own baptism…

1996. Mariama Jobe and her mother. Fatou Ann…

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A picture of three black people sitting together with microphones in their hands in front of a small crowd

Spatial considerations: Archiving Black queer life

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Hawa Sanneh

My little brother, my mother’s friend and I in our old living room. Date: 1997-08-13. Photographer: Unknown My mother gets…

My little brother, my mother’s friend and I…

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Kayo Mpoyi

How do you relate to your family/kinship archive: photographs, films, audio collections, memories, oral histories? For me it is a…

How do you relate to your family/kinship archive:…

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Stevie Nii-Adu Mensah

How do you relate to your family/kinship archive: photographs, films, audio collections, memories, oral histories? I see the archives as…

How do you relate to your family/kinship archive:…

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Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the artist Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole about her work and relation to family archives.

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the artist Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole...

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Meditations of the Black Archive: Methods and Praxis

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Online release: Black Space

  • Talk
Picture of McEachrane family 1975-76

Michael McEachrane

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to Michael McEachrane about his family archives.

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to Michael McEachrane about his...

  • Interview
Bild på havet

Public Archives and Colonial Traces

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Bild från utställningen The Weight of Silence.

Artist talk with Ina Nian and Samuel Girma

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Image of the participants of the talk

The Possibilities of the Black Archive

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Francine Agbodjalou

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the artist Francine Agbodjalou about her work and relation to family archives.

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the artist Francine Agbodjalou...

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Michael Barrett

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the curator Michael Barrett about his work and relation to family archives.

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the curator Michael Barrett...

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Theresa Traore Dahlberg

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the visual artist and filmmaker, Theresa Traore Dahlberg about her work and relation to...

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the visual artist and...

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