Launched in 2010, Lagos Photo is the first and only international arts festival of photography in Nigeria. Now in its 8th edition, this year’s festival is curated by artistic director Azu Nwagbogu and fashion designer Duro Olowu, and is themed Regimes of Truth. Referring to great thinkers of the...
View articleIn 2014 Joana Choumali (b. 1974, Ivory Coast) won the POPCAP prize for contemporary African photography with her series Hââbré. For this work she photographed people with traditional facial scars in West Africa. In this interview, she tells GUP about the tough early years of her career, and the...
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