‘Why more female photographers are participating in 2018 LagosPhoto’
The African Art Foundation (AAF), organizers of the annual LagosPhoto exhibition has explained that the need to support the campaign on women empowerment in different strata of life, informed the selection of more female photographers for participation in the 2018 edition of the exhibition. The AAF Assistant Director and one of the exhibition’s curators, Charlotte […]
Why more female photographers are
The African Art Foundation (AAF), organizers of the annual LagosPhoto exhibition has explained that the need to support the campaign on women empowerment in different strata of life, informed the selection of more female photographers for participation in the 2018 edition of the exhibition.
The AAF Assistant Director and one of the exhibition’s curators, Charlotte Langhorst said this at a media briefing in Lagos, adding that the invitation of more female photographers should not be misconstrued to mean that the annual event has transformed to women-dominated event.
According to Langhorst, this year’s edition will have four female curators, comprising Eva Barols De Caeval, Wunika Mukan, Valentine Umansky and herself. She added that 16 of the 22 invited photographers are also female.
She said, “Currently in its ninth edition, the 2018 LagosPhoto slated between October 27 and November 15 is tagged: ‘Time Has Gone.’ It is the first international arts festival of photography in Nigeria and as an annual event, we shall be hosting various programmes such as exhibitions, workshops, artist presentations, discussions, screening and large scale outdoor installations in congested public places in Lagos.”
“This year’s theme and conversation of interest is intended to explore contemporary dialogues surrounding different facets of time. Artists from around the globe have been invited to discuss, confront and wrestle with this idea of urgency. Each in their own way, investigate the practices of archiving, preservation, imagining the possibility of an Afro-based future, putting an end to a “time that is up” or the never-ending desire to reinterpret a past, laden with bold nostalgia and or hidden phantoms,” Langhorst said.
She also said, the exhibition will be opened to the public at The Federal Printing Press Building on Lagos Island, with satellite exhibitions in spaces including Omenka Gallery, Africans Artists’ Foundation, Gallery 16/16, Alliance Francaise, h. Factor and Railway (Yaba), Ikorodu Park, Falomo Roundabout, Ikoyi and Freedom Park.
Some of the expected photographers include Malala Andrialavidrazana (Madagascar/France); Emmanuelle Andrianjafy (Madagascar); Ismail Bahri (Tunisia/France); Sandra Brewster (Canada/Guyana); Kwena Chokoe (South Africa/Myanmar); CrazinisT (Ghana/Togo); Adji Dieye (Italy/Senegal); Ndidi Dike (Nigeria); Michele Pearson Clarke (Canada/Trinidad); Mary Evans (UK/Nigeria); and Abosede George (Nigeria/US).
Others are Mathilde tet Hejine (Holland/Germany); Amanda Iheme (Nigeria); Alfredo Jaar (Chile); Cassandra Klos (USA); Kitso Lynn Leliott (Botswana); Amina Menia (Algeria); Emo de Medeiros (Benin); Karl Ohiri (UK/Nigeria); Olu Olatunde (Nigeria); Chibuike Uzoma (Nigeria)and Charlotte Yonga.