About:

Shola Katija is a British-Malawain photographic artist based in Brighton, whose work explores the fluid interplay between memory, identity, beauty mythos, self-representation and intergenerational narrative. Working primarily through photography, text, drawing, and archival fragments, her practice is rooted in autoethnographic inquiry; mapping the emotional residue of migration, ancestral silences and inherited trauma.

 

Shola's visual language is layered, non-linear, often drawing from personal archives to create intimate constellations of image, resonating personal meaning. Her work resists singular narratives, embracing fragmentation, embellishing memory as spectral, cohabiting the space between thought and reality, a photobook challenging beauty standards, photobook exploring family, memory, and her Malawian heritage.  Shola is currently based in London, after graduating from the University of Brighton with a BA Hons in Photography.  

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Exhibitions:

• Free Range, The Truman Brewery, London, July 2025.

• BA Photography Graduate Art Show, University of Brighton, May 2025.

• Miro, University of Brighton, January 2024.

• One Stop Copy Shop, University of Brighton, May 2023. 

• Now Is The Time (International Women's Day), University of Brighton, March 2022. 

Publications:

• Mizu, Photobook, (Self Published), May 2025. 

• How To Catch A Pig, The Pig Catcher, Issue II The Alternatives, November 2024. 

• Femicide Zine, Issue 7, October 2024. 

• Revolt Against Beauty, (Self Published), May 2024.
   

Education:

• Photography BA (Hons) at the University of Brighton (2022-2025)