(b.1950)
Neil Kenlock was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He lived with his grandmother until 1963 when he joined his parents, who he scarcely knew, in Brixton.

At school in Tulse Hill Neil began to use a camera and on leaving school set up as a freelance photographer. He also joined the Black Panther Movement. In 1973 Neil became the staff photographer on the weekly newspaper Westindian World. In 1975 his photographs were exhibited at the Jamaican High Commission. They were also used in evidence at the Old Bailey, during the trial of the 'Carib 12', to discredit the police version of events.

In 1979 Neil co-founded Root Magazine the first ‘glossy’ magazine for African Caribbean Londoners. His career moved towards the business side of publishing and, following the sale of the magazine in 1987, turned his entrepreneurial skills to radio. In 1990 he co-founded Choice FM, London’s first legal radio station devoted to black urban music.

Today Neil continues to promote black enterprise and is a member of the Mayor’s Commission on the Creative Industries.