MYAH ASHA JEFFERS (b. 1994) is a London-born, Barbados-raised, award winning artist whose practice spans photography, theatre and film.

Her work focuses on witnessing and documenting the nuances of daily life within diasporic communities.

With her practice exploring 'Black Interiority’, Jeffers closely examines themes such as class, cultural identity, queerness, grief, gesture, and truth.

Myah’s photographic work is majority analogue based. She often develops her own black and white negatives and makes hand prints in her local darkroom.

Her photographs have been featured in a host of publications including VOGUE, The Guardian, ELLE, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent, Aesthetica Magazine, It’s Nice That and British Journal of Photography.

Myah was the Literary Associate at The Royal Court Theatre between 2019 - 2021 and is currently a Development Executive at The Uncertain Kingdom.

Her debut narrative short film, BATHSHEBA, world premiered at Toronto’s Inside Out Film Festival (TIFF Lightbox) and had its UK premiere at S.O.U.L Film Festival at the BFI, winning Best Performance and garnering nominations for Best Film and Best Director.

Myah is the 2024 recipient of the Joan Wakelin Bursary (Royal Photographic Society & The Guardian) and will make the photo series “EXCLUSION ZONE” in Montserrat in November 2024.

She will also undertake a residency at the Visual Studies Workshop in New York in January 2025.