- Following 1.3K
- Followers 19.8K
- Engagement 3.49%
- Avg likes 706
- Avg comments 22
About Johny Pitts
Johny Pitts (@johnymodern) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 19,835 followers and 2,089 published posts. Recent posts average 706 likes and 22 comments, an engagement rate of 3.49%.
With 19.8K followers, Johny Pitts is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Johny Pitts follows 1,260 accounts, so the audience is roughly 16 times the size of the list followed. Johny Pitts carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Johny Pitts under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Johny Pitts runs to 19 words. The bio tags #80sjapan and #バブル時代. The bio mentions @afropean, @morelbooks and @daiwafoundation. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Johny Pitts dates from July 2025.
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2,089 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Johny Pitts, 8 are carousels, 1 is a video and 1 is a single image. That mix leans toward carousels. With 2,089 posts published, Johny Pitts's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 9.5 followers for each post published. Johny Pitts also keeps 12 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 173 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include work, black, photographs, images and book. The captions tag #mep, #paris and #love.
25 tirages au format A2, 15 tirages au format A3, 45 tirages au format A4 et 21tirages au format A5, en couleurs et en noir et blanc.
Délicatement imprimés par Elena et Victoria
Ce sont les derniers jours pour découvrir l'exposition!
Johny Pitts — Black Bricolage
au MEP Studio jusqu’au 24 mai 2026
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TakeOver “I wanted to honour them in the very texture of the images”
Johny Pitts speaks about the risograph technique, which was especially important to him for his exhibition at the MEP Studio.
Last days to discover this exhibition!
Johny Pitts — Black Bricolage
at the MEP Studio - until May 24 2026
Link in bio to book your visit
In conversation with, Pitts discusses the importance of archiving, his work with, and his “lover’s quarrel” with Europe.
Black Bricolage is currently on view at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie until May 24th, 2026. Read more at the link in the bio.
#mep #paris #love
The exhibition runs until May 24 at, don’t miss it! 📷
Black Bricolage brings together photographs, notebooks and documents that bear witness to Black experiences in Europe and beyond, between 2004 and 2024. From Paris to Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow,Lisbon, Rome, Marseille and Saint-Paul-de-Vence, to newer work that includes images made in Freetown, Salvador Bahia and the US deep South, Johny Pitts illuminates Afro-European and Afro-diaspora realities that are often made invisible or poorly represented. His approach refuses both nostalgia and stereotype, but rather favours the ordinary: informal conversations, cafés, community centres, daily commutes, living spaces. His work is built through proximity, listening and exchange, in the company of workers, activists, musicians, educators, students and researchers alike. Pitts’s hauntological gaze connects each city he visits to its colonial past, its history and its present. This is not a bird’s-eye view, but a collection of fragments, patiently assembled through encounter.
A writer, filmmaker, photographer, and journalist, Johny Pitts (born in 1987; lives and works in London) has developed a major body of work around Afropean identity, a concept describing the experience of being Black and European. From London to Lisbon, via Brussels and Berlin, he encounters Afrodescendant communities and brings back images of formal and documentary power. The recipient of several distinctions, including the Decibel Penguin Prize and the ENAR (European Network Against Racism) Award, he has presented solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery in London in 2023 and at Foam in Amsterdam in 2020. His work is also part of the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
It was originally part of Home is not a Place, my photobook/poetry collaboration with supported by an grant. As soon as reached out and sent the masters of the new Blood Orange album 'Essex Honey' I understood completely how the two works matched- both in turns mellow and melancholy, moody and gentle, dreamy and wistful. In many ways I feel the album could have been a soundtrack for our journeys around the British Coast.
A lot of my photographs hold in a mellow/melancholy ambience borne from what turned out to be a lost yet very formative part of my life. As a teenager I quit college and was sacked from Debenhams in the same month and would wander the hinterlands of Sheffield taking photographs on an old film camera I found in a Cash Convertors, feeling like I was going nowhere. I wasn’t thinking of being a photographer, but I think I was just taking photos to prove I was alive. And later this impulse developed into a practice in which I used the camera to prove WE are alive.
Photographs are both windows and mirrors, and I saw something of myself in this student walking home from school. It was so great to get in touch with him after a few years - he's now 18 - and also be able to contribute something to his uni fees. He was as excited as I was.
All this makes me think of the words by Wendell Berry;
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.”
Congratulations on an incredible album Dev. So proud to have contributed a small part of your creative journey!
One of the most beautiful things about bringing a sprawling body of work together documenting Black Europe pretty much since I was a teenager has been working with Aron. We are both collectors and lovers of photo/art books, and all of our combined prejudices and peeves and taste came together to make this. The things we agreed on is that the book needed to look and feel like a nice, chunky, BOOK - no design gimmicks, no annoyingly complicated spreads you have to open up, no French folding etc. The second was a focus on the haptic experience. The book comes to life when you hold it and smell it, and apart from a small section of glossy colour images at the back of the book, most of the pages are bulky, uncoated and tactile (based upon my obsession with the specific uncoated inlay paper used on the first press of various Soulquarians albums around the turn of the century- paper that spoke of the organic music contained in the album) and the book, though satisfyingly chunky, is not obnoxiously space grabbing on a bookshelf, and is much lighter than it looks for your backpack, thanks to the paper stock. And finally, the book had to open properly, so that the double page spreads aren’t compromised, and I honestly love how the book opens. Oh and it had to have a dust jacket that could open up and look good enough to frame!
I’m so happy with how it turned out, it’s the true realisation of the vision we had, and in some ways, even for me, it feels like seeing this body of work for the first time. Most of the collages are hand made, and I hope and believe the book is as close as you can get to a true artist’s maquette.
I should also say that the book contains links to a six part podcast produced by award winning, a soundtrack of Afropean artists and three short art films made in the style of my photographs and shot on location in Belgium, Sheffield, Paris, Marseille and various night trains around Europe.
Afropean: A Journal is available now- get them while you can smell the fresh ink (and you really can!)
Edition of 1500
Johny Pitts's engagement
Johny Pitts's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.49%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 29 followers. An average post collects 706 likes and 22 comments, close to 32 likes for each comment.
Engagement rate
3.49%
- Avg likes
- 706
- Avg comments
- 22
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 29
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Who is Johny Pitts?
Johny Pitts (@johnymodern) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Johny Pitts carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Johny Pitts runs to 19 words.
How many followers does Johny Pitts have?
Johny Pitts has 19,835 followers on Instagram (19.8K). Johny Pitts follows 1,260 accounts, so the audience is roughly 16 times the size of the list followed. With 2,089 posts published, Johny Pitts's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.
What is Johny Pitts's engagement rate?
Johny Pitts's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.49%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 29 followers. An average post collects 706 likes and 22 comments, close to 32 likes for each comment.
What does Johny Pitts post about on Instagram?
Flinque files Johny Pitts under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Johny Pitts, 8 are carousels, 1 is a video and 1 is a single image. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Johny Pitts repeatedly use the words work, black, photographs, images and book. Johny Pitts's captions carry hashtags such as #mep, #paris and #love. Johny Pitts writes those captions mainly in English. The bio tags #80sjapan and #バブル時代. Johny Pitts keeps 12 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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