Lagos Photo Festival 2016

2. Lagos photo festival on African identity

3. Kenyan photographer Osborne Macharia imagines
how retired businesswomen could look in a series
called Nyanye - League of Extravagant Grannies.

4. The Art of Survival by French
photographer Patrick Willocq,
who once lived in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, depicts what
it is like to be a child refugee
using storybook imagery.

5. And Profit Corner is
Mozambique
photographer Mario
Macilau's take on the
threat of electronic
waste in Africa.

6. Acceptance is the theme of
Broken Things by South
African photographer TSoku
Maela, who says: "Self-love
is not to instinctively
conceal and impulsively
improve on our flaws."

7. Adad Hannah's work The Raft of the
Medusa, re-imagines a 19th Century
work by Theodore Gericault, of a
colonial ship that was wrecked off
the coast of Senegal more than 200
years ago.

8. A series of self portraits by
Ghanaian photographer Eric
Gyamfi explores African male
sexuality against a backdrop of
religion and tradition.

9. Benin-based Ishola Akpo
photographs his own
grandmother as part of a
series that looks at the
importance of bride prices
in African culture.

10. Nigerian photographer Lakin
Ogunbanwo considers
tradition and modernity by
combining traditional dress
with fetish wear.

11. This photo is from a collection
entitled Genesis by Kudzanai
Chiurai, who focuses on political
and social conditions in Zimbabwe
by trying to understand the psyche
of what it is like to be colonised.

13. Great Expectations By Jenevieve Aken

14. Mohau Modisakeng’s work responds to
the issue of violence and the role it plays
and continues to play in colonial, as well
as postcolonial African societies.

15. Chrystelle, Canal’s serie is set against the
striking natural landscape of his native
Santander, his main
character’s slick, vivid costuming
surprisingly resonant with the vibrant
elemental surroundings.

16. Exploring the relationships
between Africans, repetitive
actions, cultures, rituals,
celebrations and
ceremonies. The practice of
ashoebi wearing and the
Ankara fabric, and its
significance in our different
ceremonies, celebrations
and rituals, like the creative
process of this project. By
Reze Bonna

17. This is the story of Kenya’s league of
extravagant grannies that were once
corporate and government leader in the
1970's but are now retired. They now live
the retired high life travelling to exotic
and remote areas within Africa to explore
party and enjoy in exclusivity .By Kenyan
photographer Osborne Macharia

18. The Balogun Particle (2015-
ongoing) focuses on the
urban transformation taking
place in the centre of the
Balogun Market in Lagos
Island, the biggest market in
West Africa. By Lorenzo
Vitturi

19. “Hellbangers":
Botswana's
underground heavy
metal culture by Pep
Bonet / NOOR

20. In this project Kiluanji
Kia Henda (born in
Luanda, 1979), is
committed to
challenging the false
claims created by the
ideology related to
the birth of European
nations and racial
politics in relation to
black people, the
“Moors”, which have
massively imposed
the European
colonial model,
spreading it all over
the world, thus also
helping to create a
hybridization of
aesthetics .

21. Keyezua looks at fashion in
her home country of Angola
with this image, entitled
Royal Generation, of a
woman wearing fabric
woven from raw materials.

22. The Ghetto Tarot is a photographic
interpretation of the well-known
traditional Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck. Set
in the Haitian ghetto, these fresh scenes were
inspired by those originally created in 1909 by
the artist Pamela Colman-Smith. The Ghetto
Tarot scenes were replicated by Alice Smeets
with the assistance of a group of Haitian
artists called Atis Rezistans

23. This photographic
series is part of an
approach to
conceptual and
documentary. In this
work the photographer
explores the story of
her grandmother
through the remaining
objects the dowry of
his marriage: Wooden
canteen produced by
her future husband,
cloths, beads, gin
bottles, bowls, mirrors
etc .By photographer
Ishola Benin Akpo

24. Emmanuel. Beautiful
stranger at the side of the
road, we prayed and he
came with us. We washed
his feet and cut his hair. By
TY Bello is one of Nigeria’s
most recognized artists.

26. I trust you know Ó ju Il é (Alaraagbo XI)

27. As part of celebrations
of Hennessy’s love for
music through their
Hennessy Artistry
initiative the lifestyle
brand will celebrate
famed American Hip
Hop photographer
Jonathan Mannion this
month

28. The Igbo Communion by Alfie Nze

29. Based on Chinua Achebe’s iconic
work "Things Fall Apart" and his
novel "No Longer at Ease“, the series
“Giving way“aims to pick up on both
works’ undercurrent of
unsettlement, confusion and chaos -
once resulting from the breach of
Igbo villages’ integrity by
missionaries, and once from an
educated young Igbo succumbing to
corruption due to the local systems’
new instability and the unachievable
expectations placed upon him. By
David Uzochukwu (b. 1998,
Innsbruck (Austria)) is an Austro-
Nigerian visual artist based in
Brussels.

30. The Art of Survival, a
commission for international
charity Save the Children, has
been produced in collaboration
with refugee communities,
depicting what it’s really like to
be a refugee child. By Patrick
Willocq

31. Profit Corner By Mario Macilau

32. Turn It Up! By Jide Odukoya

33. I am 14 By Bénédicte Vanderreydt’s

34. Variations of White By MIIA AUTIO

35. Invasive Species By Dillon Marsh

36. ‘When light shines in
the dark, the darkness
is uncomprehending’
By Hans Wilschut

37. The Raft of Medusa Saint Louis By Adad Hannah

38. Red Gold By Bayo Omoboriowo

39. The Face Series By Fati Abubakar

40. PALHETAS By Bruno Morais

41. SIRENS By Emmanuel Trousse

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