I worked in documentary photography from 1999 on film, in 35mm and medium formats.
In some cases, the Black & White usage was my deliberate choice to convey a stronger message.
For some punchy outcome, I used slides too.
The focus was beyond the stereotypes about Africa but on the intersection of historical memory, culture,
contemporary African life and its space.
These were equally not in isolation from experiences in other parts of the world.
These showed at Okwui Enwezor’s led Documenta 11 in 2002,
the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, the Goethe German Institut, Lagos, 2002-4,
the 5th Gwangju Biennale in 2004 and the “imagine-art-after” at Tate Britain in 2007.
Most of my works were as found and some staged compositions, directed by me but the cultural facts
were conveyed to me by the experts.
This makes up most of my closed archive of over 20 years of unseen and exhibited works.
I am now curating to release them gradually into the future;
of the actual vintage prints that hung on the above exhibition walls and new prints in limited edition.
I stopped making pictures actively since 2008 as I kept away from the art scene for some reasons and
other personal interests.
If I resume at all, it may be a theme, once in a year or two.
The messages in my photography do show in some paintings which I have slowly transitioned into,
as I introspect about my external stimuli.