About the Exhibition
Sunday best. The phrase begins in church — your finest clothes, worn on the day of rest. But for Afro-Caribbean communities in Britain, it became something far richer: a cultural language, a declaration of dignity, a refusal to be diminished.
Pathfinders: Sunday Best explores how dress, colour, and self-presentation have been used by Afro-Caribbean communities to express pride, identity, and belonging. Through portraits, personal objects, archival photographs, and first-hand stories, the exhibition invites visitors to see Sunday best not as vanity, but as an act of authorship — the right to define how you are seen.
The exhibition builds on the legacy of the neighbourhood photo studios that documented the Windrush generation, reimagining the studio as a contemporary space of celebration. Visitors are invited not just to look, but to contribute their own stories and objects to the growing Pathfinders archive.
