Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi was born in Nigeria in 1921 and was apprenticed to a portrait photographer in Lagos. He emigrated from Nigeria in 1947 aged 26, an outcast due to a childhood disability from polio. He settled in Spitalfields, east London, where he became one of Britain's first Black photographers, capturing the area’s immigrant communities and multi-racial character through photography for almost 50 years.

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/bandele-ajetunmobi