Photography

We find ourselves in a world that takes its cue from negative and dark ideas, which can spread like a virus, ultimately becoming a strong hold for oppression and slavery. RESURGENCE: A MANIFESTO is a series of photographic performance which portrays […]

Humans like objects become set in PATHS, embedded in a constrained reality and as they travel, the possible future which was once infinite collapses to one unchangeable and inescapable outcome. Some call it fate; others destiny…         […]

Every city is a conurbation of people, power and capital. The more there are of these elements, the more frenzied and energetic the space. Lagos has its peculiarities with contradictions and paradoxes; this gives it a unique character, which draws people […]

To try to approach the immensity of Lagos is to, perhaps, try to stand amidst numerous dreams colliding in an ever-growing space. It is the manner of Lagos to draw people from all climes unto itself—the promise of a future […]

                           

Adeola Olagunju uses self-portraiture and re-staging of traditional Yoruba healing rituals to explore her journey through a near-death experience, and to visualise what it means to come out on the other side. The visuality and use of memory as a subject […]

A scar is the means by which a body carries the forgotten residue of a memory. In an alternate instance, the body heals, but the memory lingers on. Thus the Yoruba saying  Oju apa o le da bi oju ara […]

Through portraiture, staged tableaux and costuming I use photography to explore and invoke rituals of home and home-making. Most recently, this has taken the form of largescale color photographs created outside of, but in relationship to my home in Nigeria. Borrowing from […]

‘Solve et Coagula: ‘analyse all the elements in yourself, dissolve all that is inferior in you, even though you may break in doing so; then, with the strength acquired from the preceding operation, congeal.’ This body of work explores the psycho-spiritual transformation […]