Lagosphoto Festival 2016 Brochure
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ABOUT LAGOSPHOTO Launched in 2010, LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of pho- tography in Nigeria. In a month long festival, events include exhibitions, workshops, artist pre- sentations, discussions, screenings, and large scale outdoor prints displayed throughout the city with the aim of reclaiming public spaces and the general public with multifaceted sto- ries of Africa. LagosPhoto presents a con- temporary and histor- ical visual essay of the continent to both a local and global audience. LagosPhoto has established a community for contemporary photography which unites local and inter- national artists through images that encapsulate individual experiences and identities from across all of Africa. Lagos- Photo presents and educates about photog- raphy as it is embodied in photojournalism, the exploration of historical and contempo- rary social issues, the sharing of cultural prac- tices, and the promotion of social programs. In 2010, LagosPhoto held its inaugural edi- tion with a month long exhibition entitled No Judgement: Africa Under the Prism at the Eko Hotel &Suites with over one thousand guests in attendance on the opening night, Large-scale images were also displayed in public spaces across the city. In 2011, LagosPhoto featured forty-two international and local photographers with the theme What’s Next Africa? The Hidden Stories. In 2012, the festival was themed Seven Days in the Life of Lagos featuring twenty-nine local and international photographers covering various aspect of life in Lagos. The fourth edition in 2013, themed The Megacity and the Non-city, explored how the fhfhhffhhf In 2012, the festival was themed Seven Days in the Life of Lagos featuring twenty-nine local and international photographers covering various aspect of life in Lagos. The fourth edition in 2013, themed The Megacity and the Non-city, explored how the development of urban centres in Africa LagosPhoto opens to the public on October 24th, 2015 at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos with ten simultaneous exhibi- tions around the city of Lagos, headquartered at the Eko Hotel and Suites and extending to arts and cultural Satellite exhibition venues throughout the city such as; Omenka Gallery, Africans Artists Foundation, Stranger Lagos, White Space, Yaba School of Technology, Nimbus Gallery, Alara Concept Store, Miliki and Quintessence. Outdoor exhibitions in public spaces in Lagos include Falomo Roundabout (Ikoyi), Lag- Bus depot Awolowo Road, Ikoyi. LagosPhoto is proudly sponsored by Eko Hotel & Suites Etisalat Partners World Press Photo Supporters LIRS, LASAA, LASPARK, LagBus, Air France KLM, Nigerian Breweries, Samsung, Lin- ke Lab, Leica Romarong, Pixers, Uber, Goethe Institut, British Council ABOUT LAGOSPHOTO Launched in 2010, LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of pho- tography in Nigeria. In a month long festival, events include exhibitions, workshops, artist pre- sentations, discussions, screenings, and large scale outdoor prints displayed throughout the city with the aim of reclaiming public spaces and the general public with multifaceted sto- ries of Africa. LagosPhoto presents a con- temporary and histor- ical visual essay of the continent to both a local and global audience. LagosPhoto has established a community for contemporary photography which unites local and inter- national artists through images that encapsulate individual experiences and identities from across all of Africa. Lagos- Photo presents and educates about photog- raphy as it is embodied in photojournalism, the exploration of historical and contempo- rary social issues, the sharing of cultural prac- tices, and the promotion of social programs. In 2010, LagosPhoto held its inaugural edi- tion with a month long exhibition entitled No Judgement: Africa Under the Prism at the Eko Hotel &Suites with over one thousand guests in attendance on the opening night, Large-scale images were also displayed in public spaces across the city. In 2011, LagosPhoto featured forty-two international and local photographers with the theme What’s Next Africa? The Hidden Stories. In 2012, the festival was themed Seven Days in the Life of Lagos featuring twenty-nine local and international photographers covering various aspect of life in Lagos. The fourth edition in 2013, themed The Megacity and the Non-city, explored how the fhfhhffhhf In 2012, the festival was themed Seven Days in the Life of Lagos featuring twenty-nine local and international photographers covering various aspect of life in Lagos. The fourth edition in 2013, themed The Megacity and the Non-city, explored how the development of urban centres in Africa LagosPhoto opens to the public on October 24th, 2015 at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos with ten simultaneous exhibi- tions around the city of Lagos, headquartered at the Eko Hotel and Suites and extending to arts and cultural Satellite exhibition venues throughout the city such as; Omenka Gallery, Africans Artists Foundation, Stranger Lagos, White Space, Yaba School of Technology, Nimbus Gallery, Alara Concept Store, Miliki and Quintessence. Outdoor exhibitions in public spaces in Lagos include Falomo Roundabout (Ikoyi), Lag- Bus depot Awolowo Road, Ikoyi. LagosPhoto is proudly sponsored by Eko Hotel & Suites Etisalat Partners World Press Photo Supporters LIRS, LASAA, LASPARK, LagBus, Air France KLM, Nigerian Breweries, Samsung, Lin- ke Lab, Leica Romarong, Pixers, Uber, Goethe Institut, British Council VII EDITION 2016 ABOUT LAGOSPHOTO Launched in 2010, LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of pho- tography in Nigeria. In a month long festival, events include exhibitions, workshops, artist pre- sentations, discussions, screenings, and large scale outdoor prints displayed through- out the city with the aim of reclaiming public spaces and the general public with multifac- eted sto- ries of Africa. LagosPhoto presents a con- temporary and historical visual essay of the continent to both a local and glob- al audience. LagosPhoto has established a community for contemporary photography which unites local and international artists through images that encapsulate individual experiences and identities from across all of Africa. Lagos- Photo presents and educates about photog- raphy as it is embodied in photojournalism, the exploration of historical and contempo- rary social issues, the sharing of cultural prac- tices, and the promotion of social programs. In 2010, LagosPhoto held its inaugural edi- tion with a month long exhi- bition entitled No Judgement: Africa Under the Prism at the Eko Hotel &Suites with over one thousand guests in attendance on the opening night, Large-scale images were also displayed in public spaces across the city. In 2011, LagosPhoto featured forty-two in- ternational and local photographers with the theme What’s Next Africa? The Hid- den Stories. In 2012, the festival was themed 1 Seven Days in the Life of Lagos featur- This year’s edition will include leading local ing twenty-nine local and international and international photographers. LagosPho- photographers covering various aspect of to opens to the public on October 22nd, 2016 life in Lagos. The fourth edition in 2013, at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos themed The Megacity and the Non-city, with ten simultaneous exhibitions around the explored how the development of urban city of Lagos, headquartered at the Eko Ho- centres in Africa and the technical ad- tel and Suites and extending to arts and cul- vance of photography have transformed tural Satellite exhibition venues throughout our sense of a globally connected world. the city such as; Omenka Gallery, Africans The fifth edition in 2014, themed Stag- Artists Foundation, Temple Muse, Goethe ing Reality, Documenting Fiction, con- Institut, Red Door Gallery, and Miliki. sidered how artists imagine different fu- tures and charter fictive words, using Outdoor exhibitions in public spaces in photography as a catalyst to investigate Lagos include Freedom Park, Legacy 1995, the changing realities of Africa today. Falomo Circle and Muri Okunola Park. Last year’s festival was themed Designing Futures and included over 35 photogra- LagosPhoto is proudly sponsored by phers, spanning 21 different nationalities. Eko Hotel & Suites LagosPhoto 2015 narrated the relationships Etisalat between African designs, the design of Af- rica and our understanding of how we may Partners design Africa, as the platform to discuss our Konbini past, present and future intentions. With history, circumstance and fantasy as signif- Sponsors icant pointers of the lens- based projects LIRS, LASAA, LASPARK, LagBus, Canon, exhibited, Designing Futures highlighted Samsung, Absolut, Pixers, Henessey, Abso- crucial aspects of ‘making’ that come into lut play in African signs and design dialogues. This Year’s theme, Rituals and Perfor- Media sponsors mance: Inherent Risk captures the act of Cool FM & Cool TV Ours Magazine Spice posing as a repetitive act that constructs TV, Omenka Magazine, Pulse Nigeria, an image or images, which morph into 54artistry, The Sole Adventurer, Complete an idea, or identity as an act of courage Fashion, 360Nobs, Olori Supergal Tribe & for both the subject and photographer. Elan 2 © Sanne De Wilde/Island© Sanne De of the Colorblind 3 The purpose of Lagosphoto since incep- This year, the month long festival will consist tion is clear; to learn, to observe, to explore, of exhibitions, workshops, artist presenta- and to build a community around contem-