About Myah Asha Jeffers:
Myah Asha Jeffers is a London-based, Barbados-raised, award winning artist whose practice spans photography, performance and film. Her work focuses on witnessing and documenting the nuances of daily life within diasporic communities.
Myah’s photographs have been featured in a host of publications including VOGUE, The Guardian, ELLE and The Sunday Times Magazine.
She has won The Photography Foundation Awards (2024), is a two-time winner of the Portrait of Britain Award (2019/21), a Future High Streets Artist-in-Residence at KWMC, A Darkroom Photographer in Residence at Art Hub Studios and has an upcoming residency at Visual Studies Workshop in New York.
She is also this year’s recipient of The Joan Wakelin Bursary (The Guardian and The Royal Photographic Society).
Myah has facilitated workshops / engaged in artist panels for the likes of The Photographers’ Gallery, TATE Modern, Autograph ABP and Somerset House.
Myah’s debut short film BATHSHEBA world premiered at Inside Out Film Festival and had its UK premiere at S.O.U.L. Film Festival winning Best Performance and garnering nominations for Best Film and Best Director.