Like most of contemporary art, abstract and conceptual photography gets a lot of flack for being artsy fartsy self indulgent nonsense. This is why interviewing artist and photographer Abraham Oghobase seemed for me my most emotional interview in this series so far. Being an artist already places you on the fringe of things and […]
You are cordially invited to the opening of the Lagos OPEN RANGE I photography exhibition which primarily, is conceived to promote a new form of collaboration and presentation of photographs. The Lagos photographic scene is idiosyncratic in outlook – more than any other African city. Lagos is a city of contradictions that starkly highlights the […]
This panel discussion, organised to round up the ongoing Lagos: Hustle and Hope exhibition, will explore the dearth of creation, documentation and exposition of photographic works that go beyond the obvious everyday images on the streets to reveal the lives and work of people off the streets. The panelists are: visual artist Uche Okpa-Iroha, photographer […]
Lagos Photo Foundation presents it fifth edition of the annual Lagos Photo Festival kicking of this weekend October 25th to November 26th 2014. This years theme is entitled Staging Reality, Documenting Fiction. Launched in 2010, the annual LagosPhoto Festival is the first and only international festival of photography in Nigeria. In a month long […]