Myah Asha Jeffers (b. 1994) is a London based, Barbados raised artist whose practice spans portraiture, documentary photography and writing & directing for stage / screen.
Her work focuses on witnessing and documenting the interior worlds and communal contexts of the Black native and diasporic quotidian.
Myah prioritises the building of meaningful relationships with the people she collaborates with; and ultimately transposes these connections into visually arresting, honest photographic or filmic work.
Using analogue photography, hand-printing, installation and filmmaking, Myah draws upon various tools to interrogate themes of queerness, the re-contextualisation of memory, grief, ritual-based gesture and kinship. As such, Myah is focused on artistically contributing towards the living archive of Black existence.
Myah is the 2024 recipient of The Joan Wakelin Bursary (The Guardian and The Royal Photographic Society), a winner of The Photography Foundation Awards (2024), was Artist-in-Residence at the Visual Studies Workshop (New York) in January 2025 and her major photographic commission and solo exhibition, ‘ACTS OF COMMUNION’, showed at The Roundhouse in Spring 2025.
