In Conversation: Caleb Femi and Kazeem Kuteyi

Caleb Femi is a writer, director and photographer, and was featured in the Dazed 100 list of the next generation shaping youth culture. Femi’s award-winning debut poetry collection, Poor, was published in 2020 by Penguin Press, and won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2021. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize, was selected as a Book of the Year by the New Statesman, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer and BBC, and was added to AQA’s English Literature GCSE syllabus in the UK in 2022. His second collection, The Wickedest, was published in 2024. He has directed TV episodes for HBO, the BBC and Netflix, as well as commercials, high-fashion films and runway shows for brands such as Louis Vuitton, TikTok, Bottega Veneta, Dior, Mulberry and NCS.

Kazeem Kuteyi is a cultural curator, DJ, and editor-in-chief at the forefront of global youth culture. He is best known for establishing and running New Currency, a global youth culture platform that disseminates content through a print magazine, live events, and special projects. Kazeem has collaborated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, and has delivered lectures at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins. In 2023, he won the Black British Grant awarded by Dr. Samuel Ross and was named one of New Wave Magazine's Top 50 Creatives.

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