LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of photography in Nigeria. In a month long festival, events include exhibitions, workshops, artist presentations, discussions and large scale outdoor prints displayed throughout the city with the aim of reclaiming public spaces and engaging the general public with multifaceted stories of Africa. LagosPhoto aims to establish a community for contemporary photography which will unite local and international artists through images that encapsulate individual experiences and identities from across all of Africa.LagosPhoto presents and educates about photography as it is embodied in the exploration of historical and contemporary issues, the sharing of cultural practices, and the promotion of social programmes.
Staging Reality, Documenting Fiction, this year’s festival,examines contemporary photographers working in Africa that toe the line between photography and truth, incorporating conceptual practices and performative strategies that expand traditional photographic approaches and techniques.
By incorporating genres such as staged narratives, performance, appropriation, self-portraiture, and still life, these artists push the temporal and spatial boundaries of the photographic medium. In doing so, Staging Reality, Documenting Fiction explores how we imagine different futures and charter fictive worlds, using photography as a catalyst to explore the changing realities of Africa.
- Open:
Saturday, 25 October 2014 - Close:
Wednesday, 26 November 2014 - Address:
54 Raymond Njoku Street , Lagos, Nigeria - Mail:
info@lagosphotofestival.com - Web:
LagosPhoto - Photo credits:
1. Bénédicte Vanderreydt, I am 14, 2014; 2. Cristina de Middel, This is What Hatred Did, 2014; 3. Glenna Gordon, from the series Sin is a Puppy That Follows You Home: Romance Novelists in Northern Nigeria, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and LagosPhoto.
