Lou Mensah is the founder of award winning Shade Podcast, where she created her podcast for black creatives to share their experiences more widely. Shade Podcast was founded in 2019 and by 2021 had won a British Podcast Award. Lou has worked in the creative industries for 20 years, as a fine art photographer, gaining awards from Nick Knight & Alexander McQueen, and commercially she has worked on film stills for directors including Antony Minghella, as well as photographing musicians. Lou has exhibited her work alongside Mapplethorpe, Hirst & Helmut Newton, photographed at London Fashion Week and for Condé Nast.
In this interview we discuss a range of topics including black art, the creative industries, identity, podcasting, black imagery, activism and much more.
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