P5 – Fitz and Vinter
£10.00
Promise to be Tender by Fitz and Vinter
Promise to Be Tender is a collaborative photography and poetry pamphlet by long‑term partners in art and life, Fitz and Vinter. Created across a decade marked by illness, precarity and continual movement, the work brings together 35mm and 120mm film, Polaroids, collage and poems that trace the textures of everyday care. At its heart is the “assisted self‑portrait,” a method the pair developed to reclaim autonomy over representation and honour the interdependent care at the centre of their relationship. The images move through bedrooms, hospital rooms, corridors, borrowed homes and bodies of water, holding moments of vulnerability, absurdity and resistance. The poems echo and complicate these scenes, weaving reflections on race, gender, disability and community. Promise to Be Tender is an invitation into a shared imaginarium of crip love, a space where tenderness becomes a form of survival, a politics, and a promise.
Partners in art and life, Charlie Fitz (she/they) and Dr Oscar Vinter (he/they) areBirmingham‑based artists whose collaborative practice centres care, memory, illness andembodiment. Working across photography, music, writing and the moving image, they explorehow creative collaboration can hold and transform lived experience.Fitz is a self‑taught artist and writer. A member of Resting Up Collective and co‑director of theremote artist studio TRIAD³, her work is grounded in expressing and examining her embodiedexperience of living while sick and disabled.Vinter is an Afropean, neurodivergent multimedia artist, filmmaker, composer and universitylecturer. His practice weaves together the mythic and the personal, moving fluidly betweenphotography, writing, sound and film.
P5
P5 is a new photography and poetry pamphlet series directed by Photoworks in partnership with David Solo, and designed by Jane & Jeremy. Photography and poetry have been in dialogue since the earliest days of the camera. The space between these forms invites layered meaning, unexpected emotion, and new ways of seeing. Yet despite nearly 200 years of such work and many stand out examples, photo-poetry has not been widely recognised as a distinct genre.
Today there is a growing interest in this field, and to further encourage, support and draw attention to the possibilities of such combinations, we decided to launch a new pamphlet series called P5.
