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​ for Immediate Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ​ LagosPhoto Foundation presents the seventh edition of the annual LagosPhoto Festival in Lagos, Nigeria, October 22 - NovembReritu 21,als tiantledd P erformance . ​ ​ Currently in its seventh edition, Lagos Photo is the first and only international arts festival of photography in Nigeria. In a month long programme, events include exhibitions, workshops, artist presentations, discussions, screening, and large scale outdoor installations in congested public spaces in Lagos. LagosPhoto aims to provide a platform for the development and education of contemporary photography in Africa by establishing mentorships and cross-cultural collaborations with local and international artists. LagosPhoto presents photography as it is embodied in the exploration of historical and contemporary issues, the promotion of social programmes, and the reclaiming of public spaces. LagosPhoto 2016 will feature thirty photographers spanning seventeen countries. ​ ​ Rituals and Performance: explores the role of acts of repetition that shape gender, ​ image, identity, social agency, power and social constructs in contemporary society. The repetitive acts imbued with belief become coercive and normative. It shapes our general idea of what is true in determining an African image, gender, religion, beauty, social class and so forth. Michel Foucault’s (1980) conception on the transmissions and ​ ​ representations of power not just in its ability to contain and control but in its ability to enable individuals to function within cultural roles and allows for alternative self-definitions and self-presentations. Contemporary visual representations directly affect the cultural meanings associated with image construction and interpretation. www.lagosphotofestival.com Twitter: @LagosPhotoFest ​ Facebook: LagosPhoto Festival ​ Instagram: LagosPhotoFestival ​ nd LagosPhoto opens to the public on October 22 ,​ 2016 at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria ​ Island, Lagos. Satellite exhibition venues in arts and cultural spaces throughout the city extend to Omenka Gallery, Africans Artists’ Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art ​ ​ Lagos, Goethe-Institut, A White Space, Red Door Gallery. Outdoor exhibitions in public spaces in Lagos include Muri Okunola Park, Falomo Roundabout (Ikoyi), Beko Ransome Kuti Park (Antony), Awojobi Park (Onike), Freedom Park, MKO Abiola Park (Ikeja), and Dolphin Park (Ikoyi). LagosPhoto is proudly sponsored by the Eko Hotel & Suites and Etisalat, with Support by Canon, LASPARK, Lagos State Ministry of Tourism and Culture, KLM/ Air France, Romarong, Pixers, Pernod Ricard Nigeria, Goethe Institut. LagosPhoto is additionally supported by the Ford Foundation. Participating Artists: Fati Abubakar (Nigeria) | Jenevieve Aken (Nigeria) | Ishola Akpo (Nigeria) | Mohamed ​ ​ ​ ​ Arejdal (Morocco) | Karimah Ashadu (Britain & Nigeria) | Jelili Atiku (Nigeria) | | Miia Autio ​ ​ ​ (Finland) |Pep Bonet (Spain) | Juno Calypso (United Kingdom) | Bubi Canal (Spain) | | ​ ​ ​ Kudzanai Chiurai (Zimbabwe) | | Colin Delfosse (Belgium) | Thierry Fontaine (France) | ​ ​ ​ Sevelyn Gat (Kenya) | Eric Gyamfi (Ghana) | Adad Hannah (USA) | Kiluanji Kia Henda ​ ​ ​ (Angola) | Andrea Gisele Keyezua (Netherlands) | Nico Krijno (South African) |Osborne ​ ​ ​ Macharia (Kenya)| Mario Macilau (Mozambique) | Tsoku Maela (South Africa) | Ibrahim ​ ​ ​ Mahama (Ghana) | Gideon Mendel (South Africa) | Siwa Mgoboza (South Africa) | Mohau ​ ​ ​ ​ Modisakeng (South Africa) | Fabrice Monteiro (Benin & Belgium) | Bruno Morais (Brazil) ​ ​ ​ |Muchiri Njenga (Kenya) | Lakin Ogunbanwo (Nigeria) | | Rodney Omeokachie (Nigeria) | | ​ ​ ​ Qudus Onikeku (Nigeria) | | Leonard Pongo (Belgium) | | Flurina Rothenberger ​ ​ (Switzerland) | | Emmanuel Trousse (Monaco) | | David Uzochukwu (Belgium & Nigeria) | | ​ ​ BenedicteVanderreydt (Belgium) | | Lorenzo Vitturi (Italy) | | Sanne De Wilde (Belgium) | | ​ ​ Patrick Willocq (France) | | Reze Bonna (Nigeria) | | TY Bello (Nigeria). ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ www.lagosphotofestival.com Twitter: @LagosPhotoFest ​ Facebook: LagosPhoto Festival ​ Instagram: LagosPhotoFestival ​ Venues: EKO Hotels and Suites Centre for Contemporary Arts African Artists’ Foundation A White Space Red Door Gallery Omenka Gallery Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel Legacy 1995 (Railway Compound) Freedom Park Goethe Institute Temple Muse Muri Okunola Park Falomo Cirlce Through our numerous collaborations, LagosPhoto continues to provide a platform for the improvement and progression of professional and emerging photographic talent in a comprehensive public programming initiative that includes workshops, artist presentations, and portfolio reviews facilitated by prominent local and international photographers. Special projects & Satellite Exhibitions this year include: World Debut of Four Recent Series LagosPhoto is celebrated for showcasing never before seen series at the festival, this year we’ll debut Kudzanai Chiurai’s ‘Genesis’, Lorenzo Vitturi’s ‘The Balogun Particle’ Lagos and Jenevieve Aken’s complete ‘Great Expectations’ series. www.lagosphotofestival.com Twitter: @LagosPhotoFest ​ Facebook: LagosPhoto Festival ​ Instagram: LagosPhotoFestival ​ Etisalat Photography Competition The Etisalat Photography Competition aims to develop and nurture photographic talent in Nigeria by providing a platform for emerging Nigerian photographers to have their Daily work exhibited to a wide audience and win monetary prizes. This year, the theme and Celebratory Performance delves into ritualistic actions related to the daily lives and ​ celebrations of a Nigerian and the expansiveness of the country and it’s peoples. The ​ ​ grand finale of the competition is scheduled for October 2016 where the first prize winner of the competition will receive a Canon Camera; the second prize winner will get an iPad mini while the third prize winner will receive a high end Nokia Lumia device. LagosPhoto Summer School LagosPhoto Summer School offers a range of workshops in Lagos, focusing on different niches of photography to be held for emerging photographers during LagosPhoto. LagosPhoto Summer School, in partnership with Canon Central and North Africa offer The Canon Selphy Street Photography Workshop, a basic Street Photography workshop and The Canon Story Telling Workshop with Canon Master Gary Knight, an advanced empirical workshop that explores photography as a universal storytelling language. Participants will be provided and guided with the right sort of equipment’s to use and shown how various techniques will make a difference in their visual story telling skills. Both workshops are a combination of theoretical and practical learning with shooting experiences that will take place in Lagos. Centres of Learning For Photography In Africa Network – Seminars The aim of Centers of Learning for Photography in Africa (CLPA) is to contribute to the professionalization of photography on the African continent by forming a strong educational resource network. Among the participants at the 2016 CLPA network conference, which runs alongside the inaugural week of LagosPhoto Festival, are www.lagosphotofestival.com Twitter: @LagosPhotoFest ​ Facebook: LagosPhoto Festival ​ Instagram: LagosPhotoFestival ​ independent curator and visual artist Akinbode Akinbiyi and Uche Okpa-Iroah (The Nlele Institute). POPCAP ‘16 POPCAP ’16 presents the series of the five artist awarded with POPCAP ’16 including ​ approx.100 works as an augmented reality exhibition at freedom park. The winning artists are: Nicolas Henry, France Jason Larkin, England Sabelo Mlangeni, South Africa Thom Pierce, Jersey, Britain Julia Runge, Germany As a celebration of the fifth anniversary exhibition of POPCAP, the prize for contemporary African photography, a large-format, open air projection of all 25 outstanding works exhibited by POPCAP since 2012 will take place at freedom park. The prize is aimed at photographers whose work is either produced in an African country or deals with a diaspora of an African country. The presentation will take place in a public space, allowing us to reach not only the art-conscious, but rather confront the general public with the image of Africa. The 50 minutes retrospective includes artworks from the following POPCAP winners: Filipe Branquinho, Mozambique | Zed Nelson, United Kingdom | Tahir Carl Karmali, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Kenya | Zied Ben Romdhane, Tunisia | Romaric Tisserand, France| Joana Choumali, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Ivory Coast | Ilan Godfrey, South Africa | Léonard Pongo, Belgium | Anoek Steketee, The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Netherlands | Eefje Blankevoort, Canada|Patrick Willocq, France | David Rengel, Spain | ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Álvaro Laiz, Spain | Dillon Marsh, South Africa | Cristina de Middel, Spain | Alexia ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Webster, South Africa| Graeme Williams, South Africa |Guillaume Bonn, France| Nabil ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Boutros, France | Namsa Leuba, Switzerland | Adolphus Opara, Nigeria | Paolo Patrizi, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Italy www.lagosphotofestival.com Twitter: @LagosPhotoFest ​ Facebook: LagosPhoto Festival ​ Instagram: LagosPhotoFestival ​ Hennessy Artistry Presents Jonathan Mannion 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. These days Jonathan Mannion is known as one of the pioneering photographers in Hip Hop culture and he has built a catalogue lasting two decades, the hip hop legend in collaboration with Hennessy Artistry will be in Lagos to showcase some of his iconic work as well as
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