Moderator and Youth Advisor
D. Wiafe is community engagement manager at Photofusion, where his work with Creator's Studio and Young Curators reshapes how young photographers develop careers in the creative industries. Young Curators has produced the shows Sixteen x S2AU curated by Sorry2AnnoyU and BLK BXY JOY curated by Destinie Paige. As an artist, D's work has taken him from creating staged tableaux with grime's early pioneers, to acting as lead photographic mentor on the award-winning youth platform The Cut. He has worked with UAL Insights and Autograph ABP as project lead and curator on Album, a youth-led project exhibited at Rivington Place and featured in The Guardian and BBC News Online. D was one of Photofusion's artists in residence 2016–18, creating 4PM in the Endz, a multi-media exploration of the stigma of gang affiliation in Pollards Hill, South London. The work was exhibited at Photofusion (2018), StreetLevel Photoworks, Peckham 24 (2019) and featured in Photomonitor. D. Wiafe is also an artist, educator and the Course Leader of BA (Hons) Commercial Photography at The London College of Communication, where he co-founded Content Lab, a hub designed to give creatives at LCC their first steps into the industry. D's work champions the power and contributions of youth-led thinking to collaborative projects.