Ajamu was born in Huddersfield, England in 1963. He is predominatly a self-taught issue –based fine art  and commercial photographer specialising in black homo-content figure studies, self- portraits and studio based constructed imagery. He is known mostly as an artist whose practice through experimentation and risk taking is to extend, push contemporary theoretical debates on Identities, The Body, race, genders, play, sexualities and pleasures.

He has not been afraid to tackle various issues head on through visuals, talks and workshops such as same – sex love and desire, Sadomasochism, gender transgression from a UK based black queer perspective.

His ‘playful yet serious’ images strongly resist easy interpretation of any kind, they are based on ambiguity and disrupt and play with and against ‘either/or’ boundaries, Male v Female, Black v White, Self v Other, Spectatorship v Voyeurism, Straight v Gay. The prints are usually small in scale, working with a variety of props, black and white and framed as a ‘fetish’ object.

In 2001 seeking to augment his practice and ideas Ajamu studied for two years at the prestigious Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. His new work entering new areas entering other areas of critical enquires and digital media in relation to language, identities, time, space and speed.

Ajamu’s work have been has been shown in galleries, museums and alternative spaces throughout the world including, Sao Paulo, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam, but also the USA, and examples of his work can be found in private and public collections all over the world. Work has also been printed in a wide variety of publications, magazines and critical journals.

Ajamu currently lives and works between Amsterdam and London.