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LagosPhoto Festival is the first international art festival of photography in Nigeria, launched in October 2010.[1] It is organised by the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) as part of an ongoing project designed to use art in public spaces, as a medium for increasing societal awareness. The festival includes workshops and classes for professional artists, art fairs and indoor and outdoor exhibitions citywide. LagosPhoto is held annually and features emerging photographers alongside established photographers.

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Azu Nwagbogu is the festival's founder and director.[2][3]

Editions

No Judgement: Africa Under the Prism (2010)

The inaugural edition leveraged on Nigeria's 50 years of Independence. Interested participants were required to have worked in Lagos, Nigeria or in Africa shooting works that interpreted the theme.[4]

Exhibiting photographers

  • Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria), Lagos Paradox
  • Angèle Etoundi Essamba
  • Lard Buurman
  • Marc Chagouri
  • Caline Chagoury
  • Baldan Cristina
  • Aisha Danchi
  • Cleline Edgar
  • Andrew Esiebo (Nigeria), God Is Alive
  • Toye Gbade (Nigeria), The Final Bridge
  • Juul Hondius
  • Natasha Libbert
  • Kadir Van Lohuzien (Netherlands)
  • Macilau Mario
  • Emeka Obanor (Nigeria), Delta Life
  • Adolpus Opara (Nigeria), Rugball
  • George Osodi (Nigeria), Lagos City
  • Victor Politis
  • Viviane Sassen
  • Anoek Steketee
  • Olayinka Stevens (Nigeria), Global Warming
  • Jan-Joseph Stok
  • Andrea Stultiens (The Netherlands)
  • Fiofori Tam (Nigeria), Evolution of Our Political Landscape
  • Daphne Van
  • Lara Ter Veen
  • Hans Wilschut

Artistic Directors and Curators: Azu Nwagbogu, Caline Chagoury, Marc Prust

Architect: Kunlé Adeyemi

What’s Next Africa? The Hidden Stories (2011)

This edition was targeted at representing the hidden stories on the continent as opposed to the mis-represented, over represented, sensationalized and dramatically images commonly covered with the power of photography.[5]

Exhibiting photographers

  • Nana Kofi Acquah (Ghana), Water No Get Enemy
  • Aderemi Adegbite (Nigeria), Youthful Useful
  • Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria), Unlonely Walls
  • Kelechi Amadi-Obi (Nigeria), Lagos Architecture
  • Jodi Beiber (South Africa), Real Beauty
  • Marc C. (USA), Lagos From a Bird's Eye
  • Magali Corouge (France), Gambaga: Witches Camp in Ghana
  • Alfredo D’Amato (Italy), If It Was a Bird
  • Guilo D'Ecrole (Italy) Life In Lake Turkana
  • John Densky (Canada) Mass Urbanization
  • Peter DiCampo (USA) Life Without Lights
  • Emeka Ebeniro (Nigeria), Ilaje on Fire
  • Victor Ehikhamenor (Nigeria), American Invasion
  • Alixandra Fazzina (UK), A Million Lights
  • Chinenye Godsproperty John (Nigeria), Under Siege
  • Glenna Gordon (USA), Aging in Sierra Leone
  • Chantal Heiinen (Ghost Republic Somaliland) Netherlands
  • Misa Irodia (Madagascar), Africa: Work in Progress
  • Yuri Kozyrey (Russia), On Revolutionary Road
  • Selvaprakash Lakshmanan (India), Life in Troubled Water
  • Mario Macilau (Mozambique), Wood Work
  • Giulia Marchi (Italy), China in Benin
  • Tiana Markova-Gold (USA), Nigerian Girls
  • Hector Mediavilla (Spain), S.A.P.E.
  • Sabelo Mlangeni (South Africa), Black Men In Dress
  • Daniel Naude (South Africa), African Scenery and Animals
  • Chidi Nwankwo (Nigeria), Fire From One Candle
  • Marc Oberdorfer (Germany), Segun Images
  • George Okwong (Nigeria), Fela on Broadway
  • George Osodi (Nigeria), Driver's Dexterity
  • Joseph Penney (USA), Sunday Best
  • Judith Quax (Netherlands), Immigration Clandestine
  • Britta Radike (Germany), Orphans in Rwanda
  • Tom Sateer (Nigeria), Hot Air Balloons In Abuja
  • Alafuro Sikoki (Nigeria), The Modern Evolution Suit (ModEv)
  • Rija Solo (Madagascar), Miverina: Back to Madagascar
  • Andrea Stultiens (The Netherlands), The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
  • Danieke Tamagni (Madagascar), Saupers
  • Solofo Tinah (Sahrawi), Eyes of Hope
  • Kadir Van Lohuizenm (Netherlands), Diamond Matter
  • Martin Waalboer (Netherlands), A Dreaam Called Harper

Artistic Directors and Curators: Azu Nwagbogu, Caline Chagoury, Marc Prust, Medina Dugger

Seven Days in the Life of Lagos (2012)

This edition was aimed at capturing the energy and vibrancy that make Lagos such a unique cultural environment. A city of extreme contradictions, Lagos transforms with the fast pace of urban migration and the explosion of development and technology that is dissolving barriers and leading to new types of interaction.[6]

Exhibiting photographers

  • Halima Abubakar (Nigeria), Night Traffic and Human Patterns in the City of Lagos
  • Bunmi Adedipe (Nigeria), Underground Economy & Waste to Wealth
  • Segun Adefila (Nigeria), Lagos Street Performance
  • Aderemi Adegbite (Nigeria), Makoko not Maroko & Streets Engagement
  • Jenevieve Aken (Nigeria), Seven Days in the Life of Lagos
  • Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria), Lagos Sand Merchants & Retrospective
  • Kelechi Amadi-Obi (Nigeria), Family
  • Lolade Cameron Cole (Nigeria), Nightscapes and Cityscapes
  • Medina Dugger (USA), Seven Days in the Life of Amos
  • Andrew Esiebo (Nigeria)
  • Delphine Fawundu (Sierra Leone/ USA), Generations SWAGGA: An African Urban Music Series
  • Maja Flink (Sweden), Generations
  • Stanley Greene (USA), Standing at the Graveyards of E-Waste
  • Jane Hahn (USA), Makoko
  • Chantal Heijnen (Netherlands), Femi Kuti's Legacy
  • Chinenye Godsproperty John (Nigeria), Kaleidoscope
  • David de Jong (Netherlands), Zinc and Nails
  • Benedicte Kurzen (France), The Steel Shell - Lagos Seaport
  • Ruth McDowall (New Zealand), The Last Straw: Occupy Nigeria
  • Jide Odukoya (Nigeria), Emergence of a Megacity
  • Lakin Ogunbanwo (Nigeria), Spectrum
  • Olayinka Oluwakuse (Nigeria), 101 Reasons to Visit Lagos
  • Bayo Omoboriowo (Nigeria), Where Are We Going? & Women and the Economy
  • George Osodi (Nigeria), Lagos Uncelebrated
  • Judith Quax (Netherlands), Felabration
  • Olayinka Sangotoye (Nigeria), No Man's Land
  • Alafuro Sikoki (Nigeria), 2 Minute Photo Theatre
  • Andrea Stultiens (The Netherlands), Lagos On/As Stage
  • Margherita Trestini (Italy), Urban Landscape: A City of Contrast
  • Hans Wilschut (Netherlands), Centre of Excellence

Artistic Directors and Curators: Azu Nwagbogu, Caline Chagoury, Stanley Greene, Medina Dugger and Joseph Gergel.

The Mega City and the Non-City (2013)

This year's theme, The Megacity and the Non-City, explores how the development of urban centers in Africa and the technical advance of photography have transformed our sense of place in a globally connected world. The 21st century has been characterised by the rise of the megacity, with cities such as Lagos transitioning and adapting to vast changes taking place at an unprecedented speed. Urban development, population explosion, environmental changes, socio-economic gaps, and the rising middle class in metropolitan centers in Africa redefine the structure of the city as it continuously evolves. At the same time, the digital revolution transforms the spatial perimeters of an individual's immediate environment, tied to the virtual connectivity between places through expanded technologies. This concept of the “non-city” is defined by displacement, fantasy, and an unstable sense of identity, where individuals reference multifarious cross-sections of cultures. The artists presented in The Megacity and the Non-City adopt photographic practices and image-based strategies to negotiate the expanding urban landscape of Africa today, with its contradictions, grey areas, and sites of dispute. By situating photography at the core of their practice, these artists investigate the circulation of images in our society, their mass consumption and capacity to document personal and collective world-views.[7]

Exhibiting photographers

  • Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou (Benin) Egungun and Musclemen
  • Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria) Quiet Lagos
  • Kelechi Amadi-Obi (Nigeria), Captain Rugged: A Super Hero in Lagos
  • Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (South Africa/UK), To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light
  • Kudzanai Chiurai (Zimbabwe), State of the Nation
  • Marc C. (USA), From Grains of Sand
  • Jerome Delay (France), Mali
  • Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), African Spirits and The Emperor of Africa
  • Glenna Gordon (USA), Nigerian Wedding
  • Jane Hahn (USA) Polo: A Game Not Only for Kings
  • Jan Hoek (The Netherlands), Sweet Crazies
  • Ayana V. Jackson (USA), Poverty Pornography
  • Samuel James (USA), Lagos
  • Cyrus Kabiru (Kenya), C-Stunners
  • Namsa Leuba (Switzerland), La Kala Ben
  • Nicola Lo Calzo (Italy), Inside Niger
  • Obinna Makata (Nigeria), Our Youth's Blanket
  • Cristina de Middel (Spain), The Afronauts
  • Anthony Monday (Nigeria), Half of Humanity
  • Hauwa R. Mukan (Nigeria) Captain Rugged: A Super Hero in Lagos
  • Obi Nwokedi (Nigeria/UK) The Black Barbie Traditional Wedding
  • Lakin Ogunbanwo (Nigeria), Human Condition
  • Karl Ohiri and Sayad Hassan (UK), My Granddad's Car
  • Uche Okpa-Iroha (Nigeria), The Plantation Boy
  • Adeola Olagunju (Nigeria), Resurgence: A Manifesto
  • Joe Penney (USA) Mali
  • Ahmet Polat and Erik Vroons (Turkey/The Netherlands) Dark Moon: On Turks of African Descent
  • Lindsay Sawyer (UK), Mapping Lagos
  • Mouhamadou Sow (Senegal), Télé bi
  • Andrea Stultiens (The Netherlands), Staged and Crafted
  • Afose Sulayman (Nigeria), Abbatoir
  • THANKSTHANKSAFRICA, Man Versus Man
  • Charles Placide-Tossou (Benin)
  • Patrick Willocq (France), On the Road from Bikoro to Bokonda, DR Congo
  • Hans Wilschut (The Netherlands)

Staging Reality, Documenting Fiction (2014)

This year's theme, Staging Reality, Documenting Fiction, examines contemporary photographers working in Africa who negotiate the boundaries and relationships between photography, beliefs, and truths. Incorporating conceptual and performative strategies that expand traditional photographic practice, many contemporary artists working on the continent move beyond the confines of the photojournalistic gaze. These artists produce work that considers the complex social and political concerns that define a new Africa in the twenty-first century, and they explore how the ubiquity of images plays a vital role in how reality is constructed and articulated. Utilizing genres such as staged narratives, performance, appropriation, self-portraiture, and still life, these artists push the temporal and spatial boundaries of the photographic medium. In doing so, Staging Reality, Documenting Fiction considers how these artists imagine different futures and charter fictive worlds, using photography as a catalyst to investigate the changing realities of Africa today.

Exhibiting photographers

  • Laurence Aëgerter, Tristes Tropiques: Illustrations hors texte (France)
  • Ade Adekola, Egungun (Nigeria)
  • Leonce Raphel Agbodjelou, Camouflage (Benin)
  • Jenevieve Aken, The Masked Woman (Nigeria)
  • Seun Akisanmi, Nigerian Punishments (Nigeria)
  • Aisha Augie-Kuta, Material Culture (Nigeria)
  • Ricardo Cases, El Blanco (Spain)
  • Edson Chagas, Oikonomos (Angola)
  • Kudzanai Chiurai, State of the Nation (Zimbabwe)
  • Pierre-Christophe Gam, The Affogbolos (France/Cameroon)
  • Angélica Dass, Humanae (Brazil/Spain)
  • Cristina de Middel, This is What Hatred Did (Spain)
  • Adama Delphine Fawundu, Deconstructing SHE (USA/Sierra Leone)
  • Glenna Gordon, Sin is a Puppy that Follows you Home: Romance Novelists in Northern Nigeria (USA)
  • Hassan Hajjaj, Just Do it in Blue, Y Bandana Vein in Green (Morocco)
  • Jacqueline Hassink, The Table of Power 2 (Netherlands)
  • Nicolas Henry, Tales Around the World (France)
  • Jan Hoek – New Ways of Photographing the New Massai (Netherlands)
  • Sam Hopkins, Out of Africa (Kenya)
  • Namsa Leuba, Cocktail (Switzerland/Guinea)
  • Lowe Cape Town, Cape Times “Selfies” (South Africa)
  • Thomas Mailaender, Cathedral Cars (France)
  • Dillon Marsh, Invasive Species (South Africa)
  • Jide Odukoya, Turn It Up! (Nigeria)
  • Abraham Oghobase, Untitled (Nigeria)
  • Karl Ohiri & Riikka Kassinen, Medicine Man: I’ll Take Care of You (UK/Finland)
  • Bayo Omoboriowo, Red Gold (Nigeria)
  • Zak Ové, A Land So Far (UK/Trinidad )
  • Augustin Rebetez, Arrière-tête (mécanismes) (Switzerland)
  • Viviane Sassen, Umbra chapter, Axiom (Netherlands)
  • Mary Sibande, Long Live the Dead Queen (South Africa)
  • Anoek Steketee & Eefje Blankevoort, Love Radio (Netherlands)
  • Sésu Tilley-Gyado, Afristoria: Time Reimagined (Nigeria)
  • Benedicte Vanderreydt, I am 14 (Belgium)
  • Karine Versluis, One Day I’m Gonna Make it (Netherlands)
  • Lorenzo Vitturi, Dalston Anatomy (Italy)
  • Patrick Willocq, I am Walé, Respect Me (France)
  • Hans Wilschut, Lagos (Iyana Ipaja)' (The Netherlands)

Designing Futures (sixth, 2015)

The guest curator was Cristina de Middel.[8]

Exhibiting photographers

  • Anoek Steketee, Love Radio[9]
  • Fabrice Monteiro, The Profecy[8]
  • Joana Choumali, Awoulaba/Taille fine (Ivory Coast)[8]
  • Alice Smeets, The Getto Tarot[8]
  • Robin Hammond, My Lagos[8]
  • Vicente Paredes, Pony Congo[8]
  • Nobukho Nqaba, Unomgcana[8]
  • Owise Abuzaid, Yellow Shirt[8]
  • Patrick Willocq, The Suparwelés[8]
  • Fabrice Monteiro, The Profecy[8]
  • Marco Casino, Penny, Penny Day[8]
  • Patrick Willocq, The Suparwelés[8]
  • Omar Victor Diop, (re-)Mixing Hollywood[8]
  • Andile Buka, Sartist Sport[8]
  • Chris Saunders, Pantsula[8]
  • Émilie Régnier, Passport West Africa[8]

Inherent Risk; Rituals and Performance (seventh, 2016)

Exhibiting photographers

Regimes of Truth (eighth, 2017)

Curated by Azu Nwagbogu.[11]

Exhibiting photographers

Special programmes

Etisalat Photography Competition

Launched during LagosPhoto 2012, the Etisalat Photography Competition aims to develop and nurture photographic talent in Nigeria by providing a platform for emerging Nigerian photographers to have their work exhibited to a wide audience and win monetary prizes. The Etisalat Photography Competition utilises multiple web-based platforms and social media outlets making it easier for the public to participate. Three winners will be announced during the Grand Opening of LagosPhoto.[12]

Future Cities Laboratory

Mapping Workshop: Future Cities Laboratory, a Ph.D research project on comparative megacities based in Singapore, will present their research on Lagos during the festival through an interactive mapping workshop led by Lindsay Sawyer.

FOTObook

LagosPhoto 2013 inaugurated the FOTObook project, an international exchange program between art book designers and emerging Nigerian artists that allows for an intensive study into the specialised domain of art book design and publication. Internationally acclaimed photography book designer Teun van der Heijden lead a master workshop for the FOTObook project, along with workshop facilitators Andrea Stultiens, Hans Wilschut, Cristina de Middel, and Claudia Hinterseer. FOTObook is supported by the Mondriaan Fund.

LagosPhoto Outdoor Exhibition

These outdoor exhibitions, featured in parks and roundabouts throughout Lagos, include large scale, durable outdoor prints, featuring the iconic works of LagosPhoto present and past. The maze-like exhibitions allow for communal viewing while embracing public space, bringing photography to the center of Lagos street culture.

LagosPhoto Projects: Makoko

As part of LagosPhoto 2012, LagosPhoto Projects launched with a trip to Makoko to document the demolition of Lagos’ most notorious slum. A group of twelve local and international photographers, videographers, and journalists traveled together to the heart of the village's ongoing destruction. As part of LagosPhoto 2012's theme "Seven Days in the Life of Lagos", LagosPhoto Projects was created to react to urgent social events that are changing the cultural landscape in Nigeria. LagosPhoto Projects consists of excursions with emerging and established photographers and journalists to document as a group the very essence that makes the city such a unique place.

LagosPhoto Summer School

LagosPhoto Summer School, in partnership with the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin, Germany, offered an international exchange with workshops in Berlin and Lagos culminating in an exhibition during the LagosPhoto festival and forthcoming book publication. The LagosPhoto Summer School is organised by Eva Maria Ocherbauer in association with LagosPhoto.

Master Class Exhibition

Workshop with Akinbode Akibiyi: Goethe-Institut Nigeria will present an exhibition featuring works produced during a photography workshop facilitated by Berlin-based Nigerian photographer and curator Akinbode Akinbiyi at Lagos City Hall.[13]

Photographer’s Portfolio Meeting

The Photographers’ Portfolio Meeting, initiated by Simon Njami and the Goethe-Institut South Africa, are held once a year in different cities on the continent, where a select group of photographers meet and discuss their work leading curators and art professionals. The Photographer's Portfolio Meeting in 2013 was held in Lagos in partnership with LagosPhoto.

POPCAP '13

POPCAP ’13, the international photography competition for contemporary African photography, has partnered with LagosPhoto to present its exhibition in Lagos during the festival. This year's winners --- Anhua Collective, Dillon Marsh, Cristina de Middel, Alexia Webster, and Graeme Williams--- executed photographic projects taken on the African continent or that deal with the African diaspora. The POPCAP ’13 exhibition was presented at Münsterplatz in Basel, Switzerland and at the PhotoIreland Festival earlier that year.[14]

TNI.ACP Exhibition

Workshop with Uche Okpa-Iroha: The Nlele Institut - African Centre of Photography (TNI.ACP), an arts center in Lagos with a focus on photography and lens based media, will present an exhibition of its recent workshop with founder and photographer Uche Okpa-Iroha in Lagos.

Witness Exhibition

Workshop with Sammy Bolaji: Goethe-Institut South Africa will bring its traveling exhibition, Witness, to be shown alongside the festival. Witness presents the work produced in a photography workshop led by Sammy Bolaji, that has traveled to Bamako (Mali), Maputo (Mozambique), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Addis Aba (Ethiopia), Douala (Cameroon), and Kampala (Uganda). Participating artists include Sammy Bolaji, Calvin Dondo, Sabelo Mlangeni, Abraham Oghobase, Monique Pelser, and Michael Tsegaye.

Workshops and artist talks

In addition to the LagosPhoto special projects, a comprehensive programme of studio workshops and panel discussions will take place throughout the duration of the festival. The LagosPhoto Workshop Program provides opportunities for emerging photographers to further their education in the many different facets of photography taught by leading international photographers. Past workshops have included beginning courses on camera operation, advanced lighting courses and digital post-production courses, project workshops where photographers collaborate and produce work in the field, self-portraiture courses, and studio tutorials.

World Press Photo

World Press Photo, the preeminent international photography competition that features the best of photojournalism worldwide, will bring its annual exhibition to Lagos to be showcased alongside the festival. LagosPhoto has signed a three-year contract with the World Press Photo Exhibition.[15]

See also

References

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External links

  • Official website
  • Interview with creative director with GUP

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Lagos Photo news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message LagosPhoto Festival is the first international art festival of photography in Nigeria launched in October 2010 1 It is organised by the African Artists Foundation AAF as part of an ongoing project designed to use art in public spaces as a medium for increasing societal awareness The festival includes workshops and classes for professional artists art fairs and indoor and outdoor exhibitions citywide LagosPhoto is held annually and features emerging photographers alongside established photographers LagosPhoto Logo Azu Nwagbogu is the festival s founder and director 2 3 Contents 1 Editions 1 1 No Judgement Africa Under the Prism 2010 1 2 What s Next Africa The Hidden Stories 2011 1 3 Seven Days in the Life of Lagos 2012 1 4 The Mega City and the Non City 2013 1 5 Staging Reality Documenting Fiction 2014 1 6 Designing Futures sixth 2015 1 7 Inherent Risk Rituals and Performance seventh 2016 1 8 Regimes of Truth eighth 2017 2 Special programmes 2 1 Etisalat Photography Competition 2 2 Future Cities Laboratory 2 3 FOTObook 2 4 LagosPhoto Outdoor Exhibition 2 5 LagosPhoto Projects Makoko 2 6 LagosPhoto Summer School 2 7 Master Class Exhibition 2 8 Photographer s Portfolio Meeting 2 9 POPCAP 13 2 10 TNI ACP Exhibition 2 11 Witness Exhibition 2 12 Workshops and artist talks 2 13 World Press Photo 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksEditions EditNo Judgement Africa Under the Prism 2010 Edit The inaugural edition leveraged on Nigeria s 50 years of Independence Interested participants were required to have worked in Lagos Nigeria or in Africa shooting works that interpreted the theme 4 Exhibiting photographers Akintunde Akinleye Nigeria Lagos Paradox Angele Etoundi Essamba Lard Buurman Marc Chagouri Caline Chagoury Baldan Cristina Aisha Danchi Cleline Edgar Andrew Esiebo Nigeria God Is Alive Toye Gbade Nigeria The Final Bridge Juul Hondius Natasha Libbert Kadir Van Lohuzien Netherlands Macilau Mario Emeka Obanor Nigeria Delta Life Adolpus Opara Nigeria Rugball George Osodi Nigeria Lagos City Victor Politis Viviane Sassen Anoek Steketee Olayinka Stevens Nigeria Global Warming Jan Joseph Stok Andrea Stultiens The Netherlands Fiofori Tam Nigeria Evolution of Our Political Landscape Daphne Van Lara Ter Veen Hans Wilschut Artistic Directors and Curators Azu Nwagbogu Caline Chagoury Marc PrustArchitect Kunle Adeyemi What s Next Africa The Hidden Stories 2011 Edit This edition was targeted at representing the hidden stories on the continent as opposed to the mis represented over represented sensationalized and dramatically images commonly covered with the power of photography 5 Exhibiting photographers Nana Kofi Acquah Ghana Water No Get Enemy Aderemi Adegbite Nigeria Youthful Useful Akintunde Akinleye Nigeria Unlonely Walls Kelechi Amadi Obi Nigeria Lagos Architecture Jodi Beiber South Africa Real Beauty Marc C USA Lagos From a Bird s Eye Magali Corouge France Gambaga Witches Camp in Ghana Alfredo D Amato Italy If It Was a Bird Guilo D Ecrole Italy Life In Lake Turkana John Densky Canada Mass Urbanization Peter DiCampo USA Life Without Lights Emeka Ebeniro Nigeria Ilaje on Fire Victor Ehikhamenor Nigeria American Invasion Alixandra Fazzina UK A Million Lights Chinenye Godsproperty John Nigeria Under Siege Glenna Gordon USA Aging in Sierra Leone Chantal Heiinen Ghost Republic Somaliland Netherlands Misa Irodia Madagascar Africa Work in Progress Yuri Kozyrey Russia On Revolutionary Road Selvaprakash Lakshmanan India Life in Troubled Water Mario Macilau Mozambique Wood Work Giulia Marchi Italy China in Benin Tiana Markova Gold USA Nigerian Girls Hector Mediavilla Spain S A P E Sabelo Mlangeni South Africa Black Men In Dress Daniel Naude South Africa African Scenery and Animals Chidi Nwankwo Nigeria Fire From One Candle Marc Oberdorfer Germany Segun Images George Okwong Nigeria Fela on Broadway George Osodi Nigeria Driver s Dexterity Joseph Penney USA Sunday Best Judith Quax Netherlands Immigration Clandestine Britta Radike Germany Orphans in Rwanda Tom Sateer Nigeria Hot Air Balloons In Abuja Alafuro Sikoki Nigeria The Modern Evolution Suit ModEv Rija Solo Madagascar Miverina Back to Madagascar Andrea Stultiens The Netherlands The Kaddu Wasswa Archive Danieke Tamagni Madagascar Saupers Solofo Tinah Sahrawi Eyes of Hope Kadir Van Lohuizenm Netherlands Diamond Matter Martin Waalboer Netherlands A Dreaam Called Harper Artistic Directors and Curators Azu Nwagbogu Caline Chagoury Marc Prust Medina Dugger Seven Days in the Life of Lagos 2012 Edit This edition was aimed at capturing the energy and vibrancy that make Lagos such a unique cultural environment A city of extreme contradictions Lagos transforms with the fast pace of urban migration and the explosion of development and technology that is dissolving barriers and leading to new types of interaction 6 Exhibiting photographers Halima Abubakar Nigeria Night Traffic and Human Patterns in the City of Lagos Bunmi Adedipe Nigeria Underground Economy amp Waste to Wealth Segun Adefila Nigeria Lagos Street Performance Aderemi Adegbite Nigeria Makoko not Maroko amp Streets Engagement Jenevieve Aken Nigeria Seven Days in the Life of Lagos Akintunde Akinleye Nigeria Lagos Sand Merchants amp Retrospective Kelechi Amadi Obi Nigeria Family Lolade Cameron Cole Nigeria Nightscapes and Cityscapes Medina Dugger USA Seven Days in the Life of Amos Andrew Esiebo Nigeria Delphine Fawundu Sierra Leone USA Generations SWAGGA An African Urban Music Series Maja Flink Sweden Generations Stanley Greene USA Standing at the Graveyards of E Waste Jane Hahn USA Makoko Chantal Heijnen Netherlands Femi Kuti s Legacy Chinenye Godsproperty John Nigeria Kaleidoscope David de Jong Netherlands Zinc and Nails Benedicte Kurzen France The Steel Shell Lagos Seaport Ruth McDowall New Zealand The Last Straw Occupy Nigeria Jide Odukoya Nigeria Emergence of a Megacity Lakin Ogunbanwo Nigeria Spectrum Olayinka Oluwakuse Nigeria 101 Reasons to Visit Lagos Bayo Omoboriowo Nigeria Where Are We Going amp Women and the Economy George Osodi Nigeria Lagos Uncelebrated Judith Quax Netherlands Felabration Olayinka Sangotoye Nigeria No Man s Land Alafuro Sikoki Nigeria 2 Minute Photo Theatre Andrea Stultiens The Netherlands Lagos On As Stage Margherita Trestini Italy Urban Landscape A City of Contrast Hans Wilschut Netherlands Centre of Excellence Artistic Directors and Curators Azu Nwagbogu Caline Chagoury Stanley Greene Medina Dugger and Joseph Gergel The Mega City and the Non City 2013 Edit This year s theme The Megacity and the Non City explores how the development of urban centers in Africa and the technical advance of photography have transformed our sense of place in a globally connected world The 21st century has been characterised by the rise of the megacity with cities such as Lagos transitioning and adapting to vast changes taking place at an unprecedented speed Urban development population explosion environmental changes socio economic gaps and the rising middle class in metropolitan centers in Africa redefine the structure of the city as it continuously evolves At the same time the digital revolution transforms the spatial perimeters of an individual s immediate environment tied to the virtual connectivity between places through expanded technologies This concept of the non city is defined by displacement fantasy and an unstable sense of identity where individuals reference multifarious cross sections of cultures The artists presented in The Megacity and the Non City adopt photographic practices and image based strategies to negotiate the expanding urban landscape of Africa today with its contradictions grey areas and sites of dispute By situating photography at the core of their practice these artists investigate the circulation of images in our society their mass consumption and capacity to document personal and collective world views 7 Exhibiting photographers Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou Benin Egungun and Musclemen Akintunde Akinleye Nigeria Quiet Lagos Kelechi Amadi Obi Nigeria Captain Rugged A Super Hero in Lagos Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin South Africa UK To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light Kudzanai Chiurai Zimbabwe State of the Nation Marc C USA From Grains of Sand Jerome Delay France Mali Samuel Fosso Cameroon African Spirits and The Emperor of Africa Glenna Gordon USA Nigerian Wedding Jane Hahn USA Polo A Game Not Only for Kings Jan Hoek The Netherlands Sweet Crazies Ayana V Jackson USA Poverty Pornography Samuel James USA Lagos Cyrus Kabiru Kenya C Stunners Namsa Leuba Switzerland La Kala Ben Nicola Lo Calzo Italy Inside Niger Obinna Makata Nigeria Our Youth s Blanket Cristina de Middel Spain The Afronauts Anthony Monday Nigeria Half of Humanity Hauwa R Mukan Nigeria Captain Rugged A Super Hero in Lagos Obi Nwokedi Nigeria UK The Black Barbie Traditional Wedding Lakin Ogunbanwo Nigeria Human Condition Karl Ohiri and Sayad Hassan UK My Granddad s Car Uche Okpa Iroha Nigeria The Plantation Boy Adeola Olagunju Nigeria Resurgence A Manifesto Joe Penney USA Mali Ahmet Polat and Erik Vroons Turkey The Netherlands Dark Moon On Turks of African Descent Lindsay Sawyer UK Mapping Lagos Mouhamadou Sow Senegal Tele bi Andrea Stultiens The Netherlands Staged and Crafted Afose Sulayman Nigeria Abbatoir THANKSTHANKSAFRICA Man Versus Man Charles Placide Tossou Benin Patrick Willocq France On the Road from Bikoro to Bokonda DR Congo Hans Wilschut The Netherlands Staging Reality Documenting Fiction 2014 Edit This year s theme Staging Reality Documenting Fiction examines contemporary photographers working in Africa who negotiate the boundaries and relationships between photography beliefs and truths Incorporating conceptual and performative strategies that expand traditional photographic practice many contemporary artists working on the continent move beyond the confines of the photojournalistic gaze These artists produce work that considers the complex social and political concerns that define a new Africa in the twenty first century and they explore how the ubiquity of images plays a vital role in how reality is constructed and articulated Utilizing genres such as staged narratives performance appropriation self portraiture and still life these artists push the temporal and spatial boundaries of the photographic medium In doing so Staging Reality Documenting Fiction considers how these artists imagine different futures and charter fictive worlds using photography as a catalyst to investigate the changing realities of Africa today Exhibiting photographers Laurence Aegerter Tristes Tropiques Illustrations hors texte France Ade Adekola Egungun Nigeria Leonce Raphel Agbodjelou Camouflage Benin Jenevieve Aken The Masked Woman Nigeria Seun Akisanmi Nigerian Punishments Nigeria Aisha Augie Kuta Material Culture Nigeria Ricardo Cases El Blanco Spain Edson Chagas Oikonomos Angola Kudzanai Chiurai State of the Nation Zimbabwe Pierre Christophe Gam The Affogbolos France Cameroon Angelica Dass Humanae Brazil Spain Cristina de Middel This is What Hatred Did Spain Adama Delphine Fawundu Deconstructing SHE USA Sierra Leone Glenna Gordon Sin is a Puppy that Follows you Home Romance Novelists in Northern Nigeria USA Hassan Hajjaj Just Do it in Blue Y Bandana Vein in Green Morocco Jacqueline Hassink The Table of Power 2 Netherlands Nicolas Henry Tales Around the World France Jan Hoek New Ways of Photographing the New Massai Netherlands Sam Hopkins Out of Africa Kenya Namsa Leuba Cocktail Switzerland Guinea Lowe Cape Town Cape Times Selfies South Africa Thomas Mailaender Cathedral Cars France Dillon Marsh Invasive Species South Africa Jide Odukoya Turn It Up Nigeria Abraham Oghobase Untitled Nigeria Karl Ohiri amp Riikka Kassinen Medicine Man I ll Take Care of You UK Finland Bayo Omoboriowo Red Gold Nigeria Zak Ove A Land So Far UK Trinidad Augustin Rebetez Arriere tete mecanismes Switzerland Viviane Sassen Umbra chapter Axiom Netherlands Mary Sibande Long Live the Dead Queen South Africa Anoek Steketee amp Eefje Blankevoort Love Radio Netherlands Sesu Tilley Gyado Afristoria Time Reimagined Nigeria Benedicte Vanderreydt I am 14 Belgium Karine Versluis One Day I m Gonna Make it Netherlands Lorenzo Vitturi Dalston Anatomy Italy Patrick Willocq I am Wale Respect Me France Hans Wilschut Lagos Iyana Ipaja The Netherlands Designing Futures sixth 2015 Edit The guest curator was Cristina de Middel 8 Exhibiting photographers Anoek Steketee Love Radio 9 Fabrice Monteiro The Profecy 8 Joana Choumali Awoulaba Taille fine Ivory Coast 8 Alice Smeets The Getto Tarot 8 Robin Hammond My Lagos 8 Vicente Paredes Pony Congo 8 Nobukho Nqaba Unomgcana 8 Owise Abuzaid Yellow Shirt 8 Patrick Willocq The Suparweles 8 Fabrice Monteiro The Profecy 8 Marco Casino Penny Penny Day 8 Patrick Willocq The Suparweles 8 Omar Victor Diop re Mixing Hollywood 8 Andile Buka Sartist Sport 8 Chris Saunders Pantsula 8 Emilie Regnier Passport West Africa 8 Inherent Risk Rituals and Performance seventh 2016 Edit Exhibiting photographers Jonathan Mannion 10 Ishola Akpo Republic of Benin 1 10 Muchiri Njenga Kenya 10 Fati Abubakar Nigeria 1 10 Pep Bonnet Spain 10 Bruno Morais Brazil 10 Colin Defosse 10 Nico Krijno South Africa 1 Siwa Mgoboza South Africa 1 Lakin Ogunbanwo Nigeria 1 Tsoku Maela South Africa 1 Eric Gyamfi Ghana 1 Leonard Pongo Belgium DRC 1 Keyezua Angola 1 Genesis by Kudzanai Chiurai Zimbabwe 1 The Balogun Particle by Lorenzo Vitturi Italy Great Expectations by Jenevieve Aken Nigeria Regimes of Truth eighth 2017 Edit Curated by Azu Nwagbogu 11 Exhibiting photographers Tsoku Maela South Africa 3 Jody Brand South Africa 3 Lubabetu Abubakar 11 Kadara Enyeasi 11 Logor 11 Ruth Ossai 11 Nadine Ijewere 11 Seye Isikalu 11 Eloghosa Osunde 11 Familiar Strangers by Bas Losekoot 2 11 Casa de Campo by Lorena Ros 11 Edification by Alun Be 2 3 11 Dagmar van Weeghel 2 3 11 Keyezua 3 Samuel Fosso 3 Jody Brand 3 Osborne Macharia 2 3 Justine Tjallinks 2 Unknown Soldier by Cristina de Middel 3 11 Special programmes EditEtisalat Photography Competition Edit Launched during LagosPhoto 2012 the Etisalat Photography Competition aims to develop and nurture photographic talent in Nigeria by providing a platform for emerging Nigerian photographers to have their work exhibited to a wide audience and win monetary prizes The Etisalat Photography Competition utilises multiple web based platforms and social media outlets making it easier for the public to participate Three winners will be announced during the Grand Opening of LagosPhoto 12 Future Cities Laboratory Edit Mapping Workshop Future Cities Laboratory a Ph D research project on comparative megacities based in Singapore will present their research on Lagos during the festival through an interactive mapping workshop led by Lindsay Sawyer FOTObook Edit LagosPhoto 2013 inaugurated the FOTObook project an international exchange program between art book designers and emerging Nigerian artists that allows for an intensive study into the specialised domain of art book design and publication Internationally acclaimed photography book designer Teun van der Heijden lead a master workshop for the FOTObook project along with workshop facilitators Andrea Stultiens Hans Wilschut Cristina de Middel and Claudia Hinterseer FOTObook is supported by the Mondriaan Fund LagosPhoto Outdoor Exhibition Edit These outdoor exhibitions featured in parks and roundabouts throughout Lagos include large scale durable outdoor prints featuring the iconic works of LagosPhoto present and past The maze like exhibitions allow for communal viewing while embracing public space bringing photography to the center of Lagos street culture LagosPhoto Projects Makoko Edit As part of LagosPhoto 2012 LagosPhoto Projects launched with a trip to Makoko to document the demolition of Lagos most notorious slum A group of twelve local and international photographers videographers and journalists traveled together to the heart of the village s ongoing destruction As part of LagosPhoto 2012 s theme Seven Days in the Life of Lagos LagosPhoto Projects was created to react to urgent social events that are changing the cultural landscape in Nigeria LagosPhoto Projects consists of excursions with emerging and established photographers and journalists to document as a group the very essence that makes the city such a unique place LagosPhoto Summer School Edit LagosPhoto Summer School in partnership with the Neue Schule fur Fotografie in Berlin Germany offered an international exchange with workshops in Berlin and Lagos culminating in an exhibition during the LagosPhoto festival and forthcoming book publication The LagosPhoto Summer School is organised by Eva Maria Ocherbauer in association with LagosPhoto Master Class Exhibition Edit Workshop with Akinbode Akibiyi Goethe Institut Nigeria will present an exhibition featuring works produced during a photography workshop facilitated by Berlin based Nigerian photographer and curator Akinbode Akinbiyi at Lagos City Hall 13 Photographer s Portfolio Meeting Edit The Photographers Portfolio Meeting initiated by Simon Njami and the Goethe Institut South Africa are held once a year in different cities on the continent where a select group of photographers meet and discuss their work leading curators and art professionals The Photographer s Portfolio Meeting in 2013 was held in Lagos in partnership with LagosPhoto POPCAP 13 Edit POPCAP 13 the international photography competition for contemporary African photography has partnered with LagosPhoto to present its exhibition in Lagos during the festival This year s winners Anhua Collective Dillon Marsh Cristina de Middel Alexia Webster and Graeme Williams executed photographic projects taken on the African continent or that deal with the African diaspora The POPCAP 13 exhibition was presented at Munsterplatz in Basel Switzerland and at the PhotoIreland Festival earlier that year 14 TNI ACP Exhibition Edit Workshop with Uche Okpa Iroha The Nlele Institut African Centre of Photography TNI ACP an arts center in Lagos with a focus on photography and lens based media will present an exhibition of its recent workshop with founder and photographer Uche Okpa Iroha in Lagos Witness Exhibition Edit Workshop with Sammy Bolaji Goethe Institut South Africa will bring its traveling exhibition Witness to be shown alongside the festival Witness presents the work produced in a photography workshop led by Sammy Bolaji that has traveled to Bamako Mali Maputo Mozambique Abidjan Ivory Coast Addis Aba Ethiopia Douala Cameroon and Kampala Uganda Participating artists include Sammy Bolaji Calvin Dondo Sabelo Mlangeni Abraham Oghobase Monique Pelser and Michael Tsegaye Workshops and artist talks Edit In addition to the LagosPhoto special projects a comprehensive programme of studio workshops and panel discussions will take place throughout the duration of the festival The LagosPhoto Workshop Program provides opportunities for emerging photographers to further their education in the many different facets of photography taught by leading international photographers Past workshops have included beginning courses on camera operation advanced lighting courses and digital post production courses project workshops where photographers collaborate and produce work in the field self portraiture courses and studio tutorials World Press Photo Edit World Press Photo the preeminent international photography competition that features the best of photojournalism worldwide will bring its annual exhibition to Lagos to be showcased alongside the festival LagosPhoto has signed a three year contract with the World Press Photo Exhibition 15 See also EditAddis Foto Fest African Photography Encounters Art biennials in AfricaReferences Edit a b c d e f g h i j k Jansen Charlotte 3 November 2016 LagosPhoto the Nigerian festival challenging the world s Afro pessimism The Guardian Retrieved 21 August 2018 a b c d e f Africa s Post Truth In Focus At LagosPhoto 2017 HuffPost South Africa 28 November 2017 Retrieved 21 August 2018 a b c d e f g h i j Estrin James Telling Complex Truths About Africa at LagosPhoto Festival Lens Blog Retrieved 21 August 2018 Fasasi Sola 2010 Nigeria s 1st International Photography Festival Holds in Lagos YNaija 2010 LagosPhoto 2010 African Artists Foundation Hosts LagosPhoto 2010 No Judgement Africa Under the Prism Bella Naija Sam Duru Prisca 2011 Lagos Under a Critical Prism Vanguard Egbe Esther 2010 African Artists Foundation hosts Lagos Photo 2010 No Judgement Africa Under The Prism Archived 11 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine All Voices 2011 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appuntamenti da non perdere FOTO L Huffington Post in Italian Retrieved 21 August 2018 a b c d e f g 7 artists you must see at LagosPhoto Festival CNN Style 26 October 2016 Retrieved 21 August 2018 a b c d e f g h i j k l m Regimes of Truth at LagosPhoto Festival 2017 British Journal of Photography Retrieved 21 August 2018 Etisalat Photo Competition Archived 27 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Etisalat 2013 Goethe Institut Programme 2013 p 17 POPCAP 13 Archived 9 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine Piclet 2013 World Press Photo Archived 14 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine 2013 External links EditOfficial website Interview with creative director with GUP Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lagos Photo amp oldid 1114816911, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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