How would you describe your artistic style and approach
Photography to me is a language with which I like to express my visual creativity and bring to light issues that need to been seen for posterity and for change. I realize that photography has maintained a very important presence in African culture over the last 200 years, with African images widely celebrated and produced mostly by Western and European photographers.
I belong to a generation of African photographers who, against all odds, want to represent Africa from my perspective without being too pathological, even though Africa has its own problems like other parts of the world. I want to show Africa as a zone of hope and future with the diverse cultures that are bound together.
(Header credits: George Osodi, courtesy of Tafeta Gallery, London; Nigerian Monarchs)
A World in Common is on view until 25 August 2024.
