Lagosphoto Festival 2016 Brochure

ABOUT LAGOSPHOTO Launched in 2010, LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of photography 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 stories of Africa. LagosPhoto presents a contemporary and historical visual essay of the continent to both a local and global 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 photography as it is embodied in photojournalism, the exploration of historical and contemporary social issues, the sharing of cultural practices, and the promotion of social programs. In 2010, LagosPhoto held its inaugural edition 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 exhibitions 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 photography 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 stories of Africa. LagosPhoto presents a contemporary and historical visual essay of the continent to both a local and global 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 photography as it is embodied in photojournalism, the exploration of historical and contemporary social issues, the sharing of cultural practices, and the promotion of social programs. In 2010, LagosPhoto held its inaugural edition 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 exhibitions 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 photography 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 stories of Africa. LagosPhoto presents a contemporary and historical visual essay of the continent to both a local and global 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 photography as it is embodied in photojournalism, the exploration of historical and contemporary social issues, the sharing of cultural practices, and the promotion of social programs. In 2010, LagosPhoto held its inaugural edition 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 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 futures 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

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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- tions, discussions, screenings, and large scale porary photography as it relates to Africa. outdoor installations in congested public An inclusive approach that embraces the spaces. There are several other curated participation of Africans and other world spaces showing other special projects such citizens interrogating Africa through lens. as the debut project of four photographers, Lagosphoto is interested in making Lagos POPCAP, a debut perfromance and still by a destination for contemporary photogra- Jelili Atiku and LagosPhoto:Platforms 2016. phy for global citizens with a curiosity and a passion for what Africa is communicating visually. We are coming full circle with this Azu Nwagbogu year’s theme “rituals and performance”. Our Director, LagosPhoto identities is in constant flux and is fluid, adap- tive and can be transformative. This is part of our cultural evolution. Our actions and habits become our identities and can be unlearned. Photography enables us to formulate and explore this constant adaptation of identities and social construction. We may visualise and realising a newer and hopefully a better future which embraces a common humanity. We are happy to welcome Maria Pia Berna- doni and Cristina De Middel who’ve curated in past editions. Cristina is a past exhibitor and Maria Pia, a curator in previous Lago- sPhoto Éditions and one who understands the spirit of the festival. There are fourty two exhibiting photographers this year with a diverse range of projects but all selected because they further illuminate – or perhaps not, this blurred boundary between contemporary photography and design.

4 © Flurina Rothenberger/Breakers and Makers 5 Curator Statement

The act of posing as a repetitive act that acts and interpretation, we wish to explore constructs an image or images which morph further. into an idea or identity is an act of courage for both the subject and photographer. The Each image is the direct representation concept of the ‘decisive moment’ is a gam- of the world, a human trace on a mate- ble in the sense that other constructs are ne- rial surface. The photograph turns into a glected in its determination. cognitive instrument of reality because a photograph is not just an image; it is also a LagosPhoto 2016 explores the role of acts of record, a document, a message and a con- repetition that shape gender, image, identity, struction directly from reality. The photog- social agency, power and social constructs rapher is not only witness of thisperforma- in contemporary society. The repetitive acts tive process, but its author and the camera imbued with belief become coercive and is the instrument that affirms the process. normative. It shapes our general idea of what is true in determining an African image, gen- The image and or the photographer assumes der, religion, beauty, social class and so forth. the role of demiurge who has created the Michel Foucault’s (1980) conception on the world. The grandiose result of the photo- transmissions and representations of pow- graphic enterprise is to give us the sense that er not just in its ability to contain and con- we can hold the whole world in our heads – as trol but in its ability to enable individuals to an anthology of images. There are inherent function within cultural roles and allows for contradictions and risks in the interpretation alternative self-definitions and self-presen- of the image with an obvious tension be- tations. Contemporary visual representations tween the performative for the photogra- directly affect the cultural meanings associ- pher and the experience and memories for ated with image construction and interpre- her subject and invites scope for the analysis tation. Action repeated constantly, becomes of archival photography and other forms of a ritual, its transference into other spaces of vernacular photography. In preserving cer- engagement becomes a performance. The tain aspects of memory and discarding oth- preceding choice of each action contains an ers what are we preserving for our genera- inherent risk. Charging the shutter, adjusting tions and what have we left for our memory? the lens, capturing the moment: all those movements can be considered as the rituals of photographers but beyond these obvious

6 PHOTOGRAPHERS

Adad Hannah, America Flurina Rothenberger, Switzerland The Raft of the Medusa (100 Mile House) Breakers & Makers

Baroque Age, Nigeria Gideon Mendel, South Africa Force Drowning World

Benedicte Vanderreydt, Belgium Ibrahim Mahama, Ghana I Never Told Anyone Self Occupation

Bruno Morais, Brazil Ishola Àkpo, Nigeria Palhetas L'Essentiel est Invisible pour les Yeux

Bubi Canal, Spain Jenevieve Aken, Nigeria Chrystelle Great Expectation

Colin Delfosse, Belgium Juno Calypso, Britain No Weapon That Is Formed Against Me Joyce / The Honeymoon Shall Prosper Karimah Ashadu, Britain/Nigeria David Uzochukwu, Belgium/Nigeria Lagos Island Giving Way Keyezua Andrea Gisele, Netherlands Emmanuel Trousse, Monaco Royal Generation Sirens Kiluanji Kia Henda, Angola Eric Gyamfi, Ghana "Merchant of Venice" and "Othello" Asylum Kudzanai Chiurai, Zimbabwe Fabrice Monteiro, Belgium Genesis [Je n'isi isi] Vox Populi Lakin Ogunbawo, Nigeria Fati Abubakar, Nigeria Are You Ok? The Face Series 7 Leonard Pongo, Belgium Reze Bonna, Nigeria Uncanny Humankara

Lorenzo Vitturi, Italy Rodney Omeokachie, Nigeria The Balogun Particle Fantastic Gates of Igbo Land

Mario Macilau, Mozambique Sanne De Wilde, Belgium Profit Corner The Island of the Colorblind

Miia Autio, Finland Siwa Mgoboza, South Africa Variations of White Africadia

Mohau Modisakeng, South African Thierry Fontaine, France Ditaola XI The 3Ms: “Move, Meet, Mix”

Muchiri Njenga, Kenya Tsoku Maela, South Africa KT II Broken Thnings

Nico Krijno, South Africa TY Bello, Nigeria Synonym Study Emmanuel

Osborne Macharia, Kenya PERFORMANCE ARTISTS Kabangu, Nyanye Alfie Nze, Nigeria Patrick Willocq, France Igbo Communion The Art of Survival Jelili Atiku, Nigeria (Images by Tom Pep Bonet, Spain Saater) “Hellbangers”: Botswana’s underground I Trust You Know Óju Ilé (Alaraagbo XI) heavy metal culture

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Friday 21 Oct Saturday 22 Oct Sunday 23 Oct Monday 24 Oct Tuesday 25 Oct Wedneday 26 Oct Thursday 27 Oct Friday 28 Oct Saturday 29 Oct Sunday 30 Oct Monday31 Oct

Workshops Get to know Canon Canon Drop in Canon Selphy Street Photography your camera Canon drop in surgery 8:00-9:00 Cameraworks Get to know your camera surgery with touch & Workshop (Theory AM, Practical PM) Canon Camera with touch & try innovations try better Canon Portfolio 9:00-10:00 Canon- Story Telling Workshop Reviews with Gary Knight

10:00-11:00

Panel Discussion Performative Images, 11:00-12:00 Image and Identity Politics

Panel Discussion First Do No Harm: Capturing a Panel Discussion Accidental Transiting History - Community and Intentions in 12:00-13:00 Ibrahim Mahama Transformation contemporary through Images African photography

13:00-14:00

CLPA Joint Public Forum Panel Discussion with Azu Nwagbogu, Uche Okpa- Iroah, Manori Neelika 14:00-15:00 Jayawardane and Hadeer Ahmed. Moderator: Akinbode Akinbiyi

Panel Discussion: Finding Quietude in the Crowd with Bernard Akoi- 15:00-16:00 Jackson, Ibrahim Mahama And Kelvin Haizel

Events and Receptions

Panel Discussion: The Power Of Globalisation By The Photographer Marie LagosPhoto Summer 16:00-17:00 Guilland. School Projection

17:00-18:00

Muchiri Njenga Solo Exhibition Jonathan LagosPhoto Grand KTII Mannion The Igbo communion Legacy 1995 “A Hero of Our Time" "Telling It As It Is" Nii Obadai Opening - 18:00-19:00 Opening African Artists Opening Performance by Alfie Nze Outdoor Omenka Gallery AAF Gallery Temple Muse Eko Hotel and Suites Foundation Red Door Freedom Park Exhibition Gallery Gallery

Women's Film Club: I trust You Know Oju- Film Screening - Ile (Alaraagbo XI) Hot Irons by 19:00-20:00 Performance by Jelili Andrew Dosunmu Atiku POPCAP '16 Eko Hotels and Suites Opening Freedom Park

Samuel Fosso, An African Odyssey in Dialogue with LP RoofTop Party/AWCA 20:00-21:00 Andrew Dosunmu Block Party 11 moderated by Azu Goethe Institute Nwagbogu c PROFESSIONAL WEEK SCHEDULE

Friday 21 Oct Saturday 22 Oct Sunday 23 Oct Monday 24 Oct Tuesday 25 Oct Wedneday 26 Oct Thursday 27 Oct Friday 28 Oct Saturday 29 Oct Sunday 30 Oct Monday31 Oct

10:00-11:00

Panel Discussion Performative Images, 11:00-12:00 Image and Identity Politics

13:00-14:00

CLPA Joint Public Forum Panel Discussion with Azu Nwagbogu, Uche Okpa- Iroah, Manori Neelika 14:00-15:00 Jayawardane and Hadeer Ahmed. Moderator: Akinbode Akinbiyi

Panel Discussion: Finding Quietude in the Crowd with Bernard Akoi- 15:00-16:00 Jackson, Ibrahim Mahama And Kelvin Haizel

Events and Receptions

Panel Discussion: The Power Of Globalisation By The Photographer Marie LagosPhoto Summer 16:00-17:00 Guilland. School Projection

17:00-18:00

Women's Film Club: I trust You Know Oju- Film Screening - Ile (Alaraagbo XI) Hot Irons by 19:00-20:00 Performance by Jelili Andrew Dosunmu Atiku POPCAP '16 Eko Hotels and Suites Opening Freedom Park

Samuel Fosso, An African Odyssey in Dialogue with LP RoofTop Party/AWCA 20:00-21:00 Andrew Dosunmu Block Party moderated by Azu 12 Goethe Institute Nwagbogu LAGOSPHOTO: PLATFORMS 2016

Platforms 2016, is LagosPhoto’s immersive, However, If the artist does not develop these discursive and interactive forum mediated competencies, he or she merely operates through talks, workshops and artist presen- only on the level of the novice or perhaps in tations and panel discussions that explore is- isolation. There is often inherent within the sues related to community, ownership, shar- state of being a novice, a tendency towards ing, (re)-appropriation, rituals, performance, self-regarding, premature and sometimes professional practice, intervention and histo- vulgar exhibitionism. The novice is utterly ry. Aspects of practice that represent con- consumed by the enthusiastic desire to oc- temporary and historical perspectives to vi- cupy a position of visibility; no matter how sual engagement in Africa. un-prepared he or she may be, for this type of attention. In 1970, Gil Scott Heron record- Exhibiting artists will also have the opportu- ed the poem/song “The Revolution will not nity to engage with other artists and share be Televised,” a sort of testament to the im- ideas on producing compelling new work portance of secrecy and deliberation in mat- and building a contemporary image based ters revolutionary. community. Platforms LagosPhoto is curated by Bernard The theme for platforms 2016 is Navigating Akoi Jackson, Azu Nwagbogu, Wunika Mu- a Treacherous Terrain. kan and Arinola Olowoporoku. The so called global art world is complex and tends to define its boundaries by elitism Platforms Africa resumes daily from the 23rd and exclusivity. To effectively participate in October 2016. this space, mastery of the terrain is essential. Mastery in all disciplines takes years of ‘de- liberate quietude,’ so as to acquire theoret- ical competence, penetrating philosophical acumen and to develop the needed linguistic vocabularies that enable relevant participation. This is in sharp marked contrast with the current tendency to “Sharing” on social media.

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October 22nd

9am Canon Selphy Street Photography Work- shop Venue: Pearl Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- toria Island

9am Canon Storytelling Photography Workshop Venue: Crystal Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- toria Island

6pm LagosPhoto Grand Opening I Trust You Know Oju-Ile (Alaraagbo XI) - Performance by Jelili Atiku The performance, I Trust You Know Oju- Ile (Alaraagbo XI), which will appropriate processional ritual and body ontology; will take place in public space such as beach side and streets in Victoria Island in Lagos. It will involve a spectacle of an imposing of seem- ingly alien-human-image, which will have

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October 23rd

9am a costume made of drift twigs as headgear Canon Selphy Street Photography Work- and a long flowing crystal plastic sheeting shop as garment. The figure will walk majestically Venue: Pearl Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, carrying a calabash filled with earth and a Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- small plant. The figure will make series of toria Island actions ritualistic actions. The performance will last for about three hours and it will 9am be documented in photograph (still and Canon Storytelling Photography Workshop motion). Venue: Crystal Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- toria Island

12noon Artist Presentation: Capturing a Transiting History - Ibrahim Mahama

Ibrahim Mahama will give a presentation on his practice and will share ideas on his current approach and how photography illuminates his commitment to working and sharing with communities.

Venue: African Artists’ Foundation, 3b Isiola Oyekan Close, Off Adeleke Ade- doyin Victoria Island. Lagos

15 3pm 7pm Panel Discussion: Finding Quietude in the Womens Film Club Crowd with Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Ibrahim Film Screening - Hot Irons Mahama And Kelvin Haizel Andrew Dosunmu | Hot Irons 1999 But in order that their cultural acquisition Hot Irons provides a rare look into the so- should be valuable, they needed to be capa- cial culture of African-American hairstyling, ble of appreciating it as free men. as explained by five Detroit hairdressers in I was one of this number.” - Kwame Nkru- preparation for the annual “Hair Wars” com- mah. petition. Aided by striking cinematography and a brilliantly eclectic soundtrack, Dosun- With a homage to the brief quote from mu captures the hopes and pressures of the Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana’s men who were laid off from the automobile first President) above, this mini-exhibi- industry and now compete for recognition tion, panel conversation/slide presentation and respect in the fantastically creative world explores emergent practices from a contem- of black hair styling. porary Ghanaian experience via the artistic Venue: Miliki, trajectories of three artists: Kelvin Haizel, 7b, Etim Inyang Crescent, Victoria Island. Ibrahim Mahama And Bernard Akoi-Jack- Lagos son, and inspired by the emancipatory pedagogy of Kari Kacha Sei’dou within the College of Art and Built Environment in the 8pm Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Samuel Fosso, An African Odyssey in Dia- Technology, Kumasi. logue with Andrew Dosunmu moderated by Venue: African Artists’ Foundation, Azu Nwagbogu 3b Isiola Oyekan Close, Off Adeleke Ade- doyin Victoria Island. Lagos Venue: Miliki, 7b, Etim Inyang Crescent, Victoria Island. Lagos

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17 7pm The 50 minutes retrospective includes art- POPCAP Opening works from the following POPCAP winners: POPCAP ’16 presents the series of the five Filipe Branquinho, Mozambique | Zed Nel- artist awarded with POPCAP ’16 including son, United Kingdom | Tahir Carl Karmali, approx.100 works as an augmented reality Kenya | Zied Ben Romdhane, Tunisia |Ro- exhibition at freedom park. maric Tisserand, France| Joana Choumali, The winning artists are: Ivory Coast | Ilan Godfrey, South Africa | Nicolas Henry, France www.nicolashenry.com Léonard Pongo, Belgium | Anoek Steketee, Jason Larkin, England www.jasonlarkin.co.uk The Netherlands | Eefje Blankevoort, Can- Sabelo Mlangeni, South Africa ada|Patrick Willocq, France | David Rengel, Thom Pierce, Jersey, Britain www.thomp- Spain | Álvaro Laiz, Spain | Dillon Marsh, ierce.comliarunge.com South Africa | Cristina de Middel, Spain | Alexia Webster, South Africa| Graeme Wil- As a celebration of the fifth anniversary ex- liams, South Africa |Guillaume Bonn, France| hibition of POPCAP, the prize for contem- Nabil Boutros, France | Namsa Leuba, Swit- porary African photography, a large-format, zerland | Adolphus Opara, Nigeria | Paolo open air projection of all 25 outstanding Patrizi, Italy works exhibited by POPCAP since 2012 will take place at freedom park. The prize is Venue: Freedom Park, Hospital Road, Old aimed at photographers whose work is either Prison Ground, Broad Street, Lagos Island produced in an African country or deals with a diaspora of an African country. The presentation will take place in a public space, al- lowing us to reach not only the art-conscious, but rather confront the general public with the image of Africa.

18 October 24th

9am 6pm Canon Storytelling Photography Workshop Muchiri Njenga Solo Exhibition Venue: Crystal Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, KTII Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- In KT2, a photographic expansion of his short toria Island film Kichwateli, filmmaker and visual artist Muchiri Njenga follows his second character 10am KTII across a burned-out factory landscape. Canon Camera Innovations Workshop On his journeys, Kichwateli continues to ask Venue: Emerald Suite, EKO Hotels and us: what happens when futuristic technolo- Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola gies meet magical realism under an African Street, Victoria Island sun?

Venue: African Artists’ Foundation, 12pm 3b Isiola Oyekan Close, Off Adeleke Ade- First Do No Harm: Accidental Intentions in doyin Victoria Island. Lagos contemporary african photography Panel with Patrick Willocq, Lorenzo Vitturi, Azu Nwagbogu, Kudzanai Chiurai Is the fetishization of African contemporary photography and stories the new colonial- ization of African art? How far and in which ways has Africa been an obvious object for topics in photography? Venue: Pearl Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- toria Island

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23 October 25th

9am Canon Storytelling Photography Workshop sciousness of photographers and other Venue: Crystal Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, artists as producers of documentary and Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- commentary. toria Island Venue: Pearl Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- 10am toria Island. Get to know your Canon Camera better Venue: Pearl Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, 4pm Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- The Power Of Globalisation By The Pho- toria Island. tographer Marie Guilland.

11am Your parents and the country you are born Performative Images, Image and Identity in mark the start of a long journey. From that Politics moment society defines you according to Panel with Reze Bonna, Jenevieve Aken, Fati the norms established by them. Today the Abubakar reality is more complex than it was before. Repetition in African creative impulse: from Migrating populations have existed for shaping beliefs to identity and culture. many generations; the current generation Venue: Emerald Suite, EKO Hotels and becomes the norm for the future. The way Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola and speed of life have changed. I am cover- Street, Victoria Island ing a few countries from different continents where I have international connections. I 2pm want to show the possibility of new influence Centres of Learning for Photography: Joint into the multi-cultural layers of this new Public Forum generation. People living internationally or Panel Discussion with Azu Nwagbogu, Uche travelling worldwide are more willing to learn Okpa-Iroah, art critic Manori Neelika Jay- and accept ideas from one another. This awardane and Hadeer Ahmed. influence will hopefully bring more accep- Moderator: Akinbode Akinbiyi tance and understanding of the changes we African knowledge production through are living in. photography and inter-disciplinary artistic Venue: African Artists’ Foundation, practice with focus on the role and con- 3b Isiola Oyekan Close, Victoria Island.

24 October 26th

9am 6pm Canon Storytelling Photography Workshop “A Hero of Our Time, my dear readers, is Venue: Crystal Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- portrait built up of all our generation’s vices toria Island in full bloom. …” Mikhail Lermontov

10am An exhibition inspired by the duplicity Canon Drop In Surgery with Touch and Try inherent in performance and inspired by the Venue: Pearl Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, famous Lermontov quote, “In the first place, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. toria Island. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.” October 26th – 12pm A selection of portraits but not portraits that Community and Transformation through Im- capture the moment for the sitter but done ages with deeper meaning that reflect on con- Panel with Patrick Willocq, George Osodi, temporary society and its vices. Cristina De Middel Which Community is being transformed? Venue: Omenka Gallery What impact does this communicative pho- 24 Modupe Alakija Crescent Ikoyi, Lagos tography have on the subjects? Venue: Emerald Suite, EKO Hotels and Artists: Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Colin Delfosse Street, Victoria Island Fati Abubakar Flurina Rothenberger Ishola Akpo Pep Bonet Mario Macilau Miia Autio

26 October 27th

9am Canon Storytelling Photography Workshop Venue: Crystal Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island

10am Get to know your Canon Camera better Venue: Pearl Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island

6pm Jonathan Mannion Opening Hennessy Artistry Presents Jonathan Man- nion 20-year Anniversary In 2016 photographer Jonathan Man- nion celebrates his first ever album sleeve, the iconic debut album by superstar Jay-Z entitled Reasonable Doubt. To celebrate this landmark album and it’s 20th anniversary Jonathan spent four long and hectic days in the Jealous Print Studio to created a series of thirty screen prints on to canvas with team members Danny Augustine and Ben Chal- len. Working from the camera stills taken from the session of Reasonable Doubt the new screen works are unlike anything Jona- than has created before.

Venue: Red Door Gallery, 24 Modupe Alakija Crescent Ikoyi, Lagos

28 October 28th October 29th

9am 10am Canon Storytelling Photography Workshop Portfolio Review with Gary Knight Venue: Crystal Suite, EKO Hotels and Venue: Emerald Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Suites, Street, Victoria Island Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Vic- toria Island

10am 2pm Canon Drop In Surgery with Touch and Try Kudzanai Chiruai Venue: Pearl Suite, EKO Hotels and Suites, A Multidisciplinary Approach To Visual Sto- Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, ry Telling Victoria Island Venue: AAF African Artists Foundation, 3B Isiola Oyekan, Off Adeleke Adedoyin, VI 6pm Telling It As It Is 6pm An exhibition that begins with historical nar- Nii Obodai: Who Knows Tomorrow (2009) ratives and transits to contemporary per- Who Knows Tomorrow is a work I made col- spectives on origins and gender in literature. laborating with my friend French Algerian photographer, Bruno Boudjelal. Over a peri- Venue: African Artists Foundation, 3B Isiola od of two years we travelled through Ghana Oyekan, Off Adeleke Adedoyin, Off Kofo discussing and philosophising what indepen- Abayomi Victoria Island dence meant to us and the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah’s vision. The photographs were Artists: made during a series of road trips. They be- Adad Hannah, Baroque Age, Reze Bonna come a poetic response to the dialogue and Jenevieve Aken, Kiluanji Kia Henda experience we had. Who knows tomorrow is Lakin Ogunbawo, Leonard Pongo made up of four visual poems: Lorenzo Vitturi, Rodney Omokachie 1966 Sanne de Wilde, Ty Bello, Karimah Ashadu, Portraits As We Are Galamse Ibrahim Mahama, Emmanuel Trousse The Passing Venue: Temple Muse 21, Amodu Tijani Close, Victoria Island, Lagos

29 October 30th

5pm 8pm Performance: The Igbo communion By Alfie LagosPhoto Rooftop/AWCA Block Party Nze Venue: Goethe Institute “...take and eat this kolanut as a sign of our City Hall, Catholic Mission Street, opposite communion and brotherhood... Holy Cross Cathedral Who brings the kolanut offers life...” These words used in the offering and shar ing of kolanut in the Igbo culture, exemplifies October 31st the deeper meaning of this ancient pre-Chris- tian practice and its transliteration into the 6pm christian and other cultures, ceremonies and Legacy 1995 Projection Exhibition practices of the world. Venue: 17 Federal Road, Railway Com- The performance uses the presence of ar- pound, Ebute Meta, Lagos. chetypes, (statues and masks) and actors to bring to the viewer a work that goes beyond the everyday aspect of popular culture. The work is an invitation to take a deeper look and find more meaning in one’s environment.

Venue: Goethe Institute City Hall, Catholic Mission Street, opposite Holy Cross Cathedral

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LAGOSPHOTO TEAM

Director Azu Nwagbogu Brand Director Wunika Mukan Gallery Manager Olayinka Sangotoye Curator, International Projects Maria Pia Bernadoni General Manager Seun Alli Project Coordinator Paulina Nzeh Project Coordinator: Branding & Programmes Arinola Olowoporoku Architect Laura Beltrami Project Coordinator: Content Ikechukwu Samuel Design Assistant Benson Ibeabuchi Photographer Yinka Oladipupo

Curatorial Team Azu Nwagbogu Cristina de Middel Maria Pia Bernadoni

Global Art Director & Graphic Designer Stefano Bianchi

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