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Urban Journeys: Eko ile
Eko Ile
WHERE: Lagos Island, Lagos State
COUNTRY: Nigeria
WHEN: January, 2015
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Urban Journeys: Born to Win
Born To Win
WHERE: Takwa Bay, Lagos
COUNTRY: Nigeria
WHEN: April 2012
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Urban Journeys: Yaba Yaba Yaba
Molue Bus
WHERE: Ikeja, Lagos
COUNTRY: Nigeria
WHEN: January 2006
And just for laughs, I am sure the Nigerians will appreciate the ‘Owo Morney‘ video featuring Crusher by Area! I still find it funny, no matter how any times I have watched it.
Here is another wonderful discovery I made. If you want audio that captures the experience of travelling around in Lagos on public transport In Conversation With Emeka Ogboh on Lagos, and Listening To The World In a Musical Way found on the Another Africa website. Brilliant.
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Urban Journeys: Yaba Post Office Boxes
Vintage Yaba Postboxes
WHERE: Sabo, Yaba, Lagos
COUNTRY: Nigeria
WHEN: 2009
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Urban Journeys: Dolphin Estate
Dolphin Estate
WHERE: Ikoyi, Lagos
COUNTRY: Nigeria
WHEN: 2010
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Urban Journeys: Pharrell needs this hat
Pharrell’s Alternate Hat
WHERE: Takwa Bay, Lagos
COUNTRY: Nigeria
WHEN: April 2012
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Fabulous Finds: Nike Art Gallery
During last week’s Social Media Week, I finally got round to visiting Nike Art Gallery in Lekki. I loved it. It was full of what I can only refer to as treasure! A fantastic array of African art all under one roof.
Sculpture, painting, metalwork; it had everything. I can certainly not do it just in words so here are a few pictures. There are four levels to discover new favourites. I don’t think it’s a one day only type of visit. I spent quite some time but will definitely be back to take more of it in.
Artist- Joseph Eze
On the tour we were introduced to many new artists on the scene as well as some of the old masters. I will look further into their work and write about some of them in later posts. One of my personal favourites was Joseph Eze, whose work I have seen before but I was unable to identify.
He does these beautiful women with threaded hair. They are beautifully adorned and interestingly each and every symbol/motif on the canvases has a meaning. I will explore further!
Red Bull Metal Sculpture
In the meantime, if you are in Lagos make sure you visit!
Address: 2 Lekki-Epe Expy, Lekki, Nigeria Phone:+234 813 154 8613 Hours: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm website: www.nikeartcenters.com/ -
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Urban Journeys: Vintage Yaba Post Boxes
Vintage Yaba Postboxes
WHERE: Sabo, Yaba, Lagos
COUNTRY: Nigeria
WHEN: 2009
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Urban Journeys: Nigerian Post Office
Nigerian Post Office
WHERE: Victoria Island, Lagos
COUNTRY: Nigeria
WHEN: 2010
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LagosPhoto 2012: ‘Seven Days in the Life of Lagos’
Third Annual LagosPhoto Festival
Opens 13th October 2012
With Leading Local and International Photographers
LagosPhoto proudly presents the third edition of its international photography festival entitled “7 Days in the Life of Lagos”, featuring 29 local and international photographers.
Participating photographers in LagosPhoto 2012 include: Halima Abubakar, Bunmi Adedipe, Segun Adelfila, Aderemi Adegbite, Jenevieve Aken, Akintunde Akinleye, Kelechi Amadi-Obi, Lolade Cameron Cole, Medina Dugger, Delphine Fawundu, Maja Flink, Stanley Greene, Jane Hahn, Chantal Heijnen, Chinenye Godsproperty John, David de Jong, Benedicte Kurzen, Ruth McDowall, Jide Odukoya, Lakin Ogunbanwo, Olayinka Oluwakuse, Bayo Omoboriowo, George Osodi, Judith Quax, Olayinka Sangotoye, Alafuro Sikoki, Andrea Stultiens, Margherita Trestini, and Hans Wilschut.
This year’s edition aims to capture the energy and vibrance that make the city of Lagos such a unique cultural environment. Lagos is the creative and business hub of Nigeria, arguably even Africa, an urban megapolis with a high population density. The rate of change in the city is also rapidly evolving with improvements struggling to keep pace with the restlessness and innovation of the people. Lagos is the most populous city in Nigeria, the second fastest growing city in Africa and the seventh fastest growing city in the world. A city of extremes and 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 interactions. LagosPhoto 2012 aims to document the city of Lagos from a comprehensive and nuanced perspective, one that reveals the big picture by focusing on the minute details of social life. Photographers were nominated to document aspects of life in the city with an extended photographic project, with topics including religion, architecture, culture, nightlife, economy, music, lifestyle, sports, government, and infrastructure, among others. By providing a plural point of view that includes the many facets of daily life in diverse socio-economic communities of Lagos, LagosPhoto 2012 continues its philosophy in documenting and inspiring change through photography.
LagosPhoto 2012 will open with the official exhibition at the Eko Hotel & Suites. LagosPhoto 2012 extends its mission in engaging the city of Lagos and the public by extending the exhibition to nine simultaneous satellite exhibition spaces throughout the city of Lagos. Exhibition venues include the African Artists’ Foundation, Nimbus Gallery, A White Space, Omenka Gallery, The Federal Printing Press, The Kalakuta Fela Museum, Muri Okunola Park, the University of Lagos, and the Falomo Roundabout.
An exhibition of photographs that document the ongoing demolition of Makoko will inaugurate the newly created LagosPhoto Projects series at the African Artists’ Foundation Gallery, where a group of photographers and journalists intervene in public spaces to reveal stories of the changing social landscape in Nigeria. Anton Cobijn’s photographs of Fela Kuti in the early 1980s will be exhibited at the Kalakuta Fela Museum in a partnership between Felabration and LagosPhoto. An installation of the Nigeria Nostalgia Project, an online digital archive of collected photographs, including vernacular images, video, sound bytes, press clippings, publicity stills, and various ephemera depicting scenes in people in Nigeria between 1960-1980, will unfold in an interactive presentation at A White Space. Goethe-Institut Nigeria will partner with LagosPhoto to present an installation entitledBlack.Light at the Federal Printing Press in Lagos Island. Black.Light is based on the work of renowned war photographer Wolf Böwig’s report on West African Civil Wars, and includes fifteen graphic artists from around the world in a combination of photographs, literary texts, and graphic novels. Outdoor venues such as the Muri Okunola Park, the University of Lagos, and theFalomo Roundabout engage public spaces throughout the city with exhibitions of large scale, durable outdoor photographic prints.
Website: http://www.lagosphotofestival.com
Schedule of events http://www.lagosphotofestival.com/edition-2012.php