Public Events


Youth X is delighted to announce a programme of public events:

Join us for the opening of “Cultivating Diasporic Presence: Side A//Side B” on October 21, 2026, at Four Corners Gallery, London.


Work in progress of 5 BIPOC diasporic mentored artists: Fiyin Oluokun, Lattina Da'Costa, Munirah Almehri, Caroline Lacoma, Fikayo Adebajo (Side A//). Alongside the work of their mentors: Ingrid Pollard, Helen Cammock, Laura El-Tantawy, Silvia Rosi, Heather Agyepong (//Side B). Plus BIPOC diasporic commended self-taught mentee artist: Fatimah Mujtaba (Side A//) alongside the work of the mentor and artist-curator in residence Jacqueline Ennis Cole (//Side B).  

'Studio showcase: Work in progress' of the artist Aida Silvestri inaugural Youth X Liberation Awardee 2026, with Renee Mussai as guest curator of Aida's Work in progress'        

Public viewing: 5–7pm

Celebratory social with canapés and drink/refreshments, including a Live performance set: artist Hannah Catherine Jones                                                                                                        

 Exhibition open to the public from Thursday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm (Wed until 7pm) ends 6pm on November 14, 2026.
Location: Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0QN

There will also be a Youth X Forum public event where two BIPOC films at Close Up Cinema will be screened at 13.30 and at 15.45.


  • Eyes of Ghana Youth X Forum screening at 13.30 - 3.30pm

  • Cemetery of Cinema Youth X Forum screening at 15.45 - 6pm

Youth X Mentoring Exhibition


Youth X is delighted to announce a one-month exhibition at Four Corners Gallery featuring the work of five artist-mentees, alongside their artist-mentors’ work. Additional work will be shown in the Four Corners foyer.

Our Youth X Artist-Mentors and Artist-Mentees

  • Ingrid Pollard is mentoring Fiyin Oluokun
Mixed-media visual artist using collage as a means of ‘sampling.’

  • Helen Cammock is mentoring Lattina Da’Costa
Photographer and researcher working across darkroom practice, archival intervention, and diary-based methods.

  • Laura El-Tantawy is mentoring Munirah Almehri
Artist, researcher, working across photography, moving-image and sound.

  • Silvia Rosi is mentoring Caroline Lacoma
Visual artist using fine art photography, moving image, and mixed media.

  • Heather Agyepong is mentoring Fikayo Adebajo
Artist working across photography, textiles, and installation.

Read about the mentors here.

Our Youth X Commended  Artist-Mentee

Youth X are delighted to announce our commended artist-mentee Fatimah Mujtaba

  • Jacqueline Ennis-Cole is mentoring Fatimah Mujtaba
Self-taught photographer exploring visual stories across heritage, language and community.



Cultivating Diasporic Presence: Uprooting Hate 


Cultivating Diasporic Presence – Uprooting Hate is a six-month pilot mentorship programme supporting five under-31 BIPOC diasporic intersectional photographers to express and envision transformative presence. Working alongside established artist-mentors, the mentee practitioners develop new visual projects that work towards uprooting structures of hate and cultivating new possibilities for liberation, resilience and joy.

This mentorship programme explores uprooting “hate” in multiple, complex, and layered forms: race-related hate, misogyny, afroqueerphobia, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, disablism, classism, extractivist and exploitative hate, and structural or institutional violence. As well as centring practices of care, justice, reparative action, resistance, and world-building, Youth X’s  projects document collective action, celebrate community resilience, trace intimate stories of care, and/or imagine new ways of being and seeing. Our projects are rooted in memory work and/or speculation on radical ways of being, belonging, and living otherwise. Youth X supports bold, subversive, transformative, and imaginative lens-based work that refuses to let hate have the final word while engaging photography as a tool for witnessing, for world-building and for envisioning liberatory, diasporic presence.

For this year's Pilot project, “diasporic" refers to individuals and communities shaped by historical or ongoing displacement from their ancestral homelands or places of origin – including but not limited to African/Caribbean diaspora, Palestinian/Middle Eastern, South Asian, and other diasporas. This includes those who have experienced displacement, or forced/voluntary movement from ancestral homelands (recent or generations ago) who navigate relationships with multiple geographies, states of belonging and histories.

This diasporic iteration culminates in a one-month group exhibition (October 21 – November 14 2026) and two programmed public events, one at Four Corners Gallery and the other at Close-Up Cinema. The exhibition will be accompanied by a small publication booklet showcasing the work created and amplifying the artists’ voices in print.

About Youth X Mentoring CIC


Youth X Mentoring CIC supports emerging interdisciplinary artists (18-30) working across photography, creative writing, moving image, archives, sound and performance. We offer our mentee artists and/or creatives support to build a sustainable practice through the development of practical skills, relationships with professionals (including peers and mentors), and the deepening of their knowledge base.

We create projects and platforms where artists of different generations and diverse backgrounds come together. Our programmes prioritise artists at the outset or initial stages of their careers who explore eco-social justice, world-building and community transformation.

We value deep listening, intergenerational care, and practical guidance, where experience meets new perspectives, and where artists and/or creatives can develop their critical and creative voice. Youth X Mentoring was founded in 2023 by visual-performance artist, writer, and curator Jacqueline Ennis-Cole.

About Four Corners Gallery


Four Corners is a centre for film and photography, providing a dynamic learning, production and exhibition environment where artists, photographers, filmmakers, trainees and local people work together. They partner and/or collaborate with photographers, communities, and audiences to explore socially engaged practice and champion progressive social change. They have a commitment to enabling marginalised, disadvantaged and underprivileged photographers to further develop their careers. Four Corners showcases the work of creative practitioners raising awareness and representing underrepresented voices in a valuable cultural context. Four Corners attracts large audiences through a specialist programme of gallery exhibitions, talks, and public events.

Ground Floor, 121 Roman Rd, Bethnal Green, London E2 0QN
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Donations


Monies raised will go towards the exhibition costs of the mentees on the Uprooting Hate programme. We are seeking donations from interested individuals. Donors will have an opportunity to leave their email address and remain informed of exhibition dates. We have set the donation at a suggested £5. However, you may alter this to less or more, depending on your circumstances. We also welcome in-kind offers of support. 

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Fingers to the Bone Press & Youth X Mentoring is a registered Community Interest Company: GB-COH-14689579

Youth X Mentoring extend their heartfelt gratitude to the Curatorial Advisory Circle, Mentors, Nominators, Organisations, and Universities and all applicants who participated in the Open Call, 2026.

Curatorial Advisory Circle:
Renée Mussai
Adelaide Bannerman
Taous Dahmani
Derek Wiafe Mentors:
Ingrid Pollard
Helen Cammock
Laura El-Tantawy
Silvia Rosi
Heather Agyepong Nominators:
Mark Sealy
Bindi Mehra
Max Houghton
Christiane Monarchi
Zelda Cheatle
Marie Smith
Richard (Chard) Adio
David Birkin
Rawanne Koumaira
D. Waife Organisations:
Autograph ABP
The Photographers' Gallery
INIVA
Four Corners
Photofusion
London Independent Photography
The Photography Foundation
Photoworks
The Royal Photography Society
Street Level Photoworks
Open Eye
Aspex
MACK Books
Martin Parr Foundation
Fast Forward
Shutterhub
IntoArt
198 Contemporary Arts & Learning
CVAN (Contemporary Visual Arts Network)
The Institute of Contemporary Arts

 Universities:
Bath Spa University
Birmingham City University
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Coventry University
De Montfort University
Falmouth University
Glasgow School of Art
Goldsmiths, University of London
Kingston University London
Leeds Arts University
London Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Middlesex University London
Norwich University of the Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Oxford Brookes University Plymouth College of Art
University College London – Slade School of Fine Art
University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Farnham
University of Brighton
University of Derby
University of East London
University of Huddersfield
University of Manchester
University of Salford
University of Westminster
University of the Arts London (UAL) – Camberwell College of Arts
University of the Arts London (UAL) – Central Saint Martins
University of the Arts London (UAL) – London College of Communication
University of the Arts London (UAL) – London College of Fashion