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Friday, November 14, 2014

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Reception: Master Class with Akinbode Akinbiyi and Uche Okpa-Iroha
The Masterclass Exhibition  outcome of a three-week workshop held in October at the Goethe-Institut Lagos and facilitated by acclaimed photographers Akinbode Akinbiyi and Uche Okpa-Iroha.
Photography Masterclass Exhibition: Culture and Heritage
During the three-week workshop - themed ‘Culture and Heritage’ -, both facilitators and six workshop participants visited Osogbo and its internationally-renowned groves.

I am 14 By Bénédicte Vanderreydt Film Screening

 Images produced during the workshop will be featured at the Masterclass Exhibition opening on November 5 during the LagosPhoto Festival and in Germany in 2016.

 The annual Photography Masterclass falls within Goethe-Institut’s Centres of Learning for African Photography project. Participants in this edition are Kemi Akin-Nibosun, Chidinma Nnorom Chinke, Godsproperty Chinenye John, Obinna Valentine Ojiaku, Atilola Olubela and Nneka Christiana Iwunna.


Archive of Modern Conflict
The Archive of Modern Conflict, an independent publisher based in London, partners with LagosPhoto this year with three projects that explore vernacular photography in Africa. In the project Studio Cameroon, the Archive of Modern Conflict acquired hundred of colored negatives from the popular photography studio, Studio Jeunesse, in Cameroon. These photographs were taken in the 1970s and 1980s and were made as intimate momentos for its electic sitters. This project includes an installation as well as a documentary film about the history of the studio





Reception: Master Class with Akinbode Akinbiyi and Uche Okpa-Iroha

Wed 5th Nov, 2014

4 pm
Lagos City Hall, Catholic MIssion Street, Lagos Island
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Uche Okpa-Iroha
Photography Masterclass Exhibition: Culture and Heritage
The Masterclass Exhibition is an outcome of a three-week workshop held in October at the Goethe-Institut Lagos and facilitated by acclaimed photographers Akinbode Akinbiyi and Uche Okpa-Iroha.
During the three-week workshop - themed ‘Culture and Heritage’ -, both facilitators and six workshop participants visited Osogbo and its internationally-renowned groves. Images produced during the workshop will be featured at the Masterclass Exhibition opening on November 5 during the LagosPhoto Festival and in Germany in 2016. The annual Photography Masterclass falls within Goethe-Institut’s Centres of Learning for African Photography project. Participants in this edition are Kemi Akin-Nibosun, Chidinma Nnorom Chinke, Godsproperty Chinenye John, Obinna Valentine Ojiaku, Atilola Olubela and Nneka Christiana Iwunna.
(Photo credit: ‘Mortar Bound’ by Chidinma Nnorom Chinke)
- See more at: http://www.lagosphotofestival.com/events/goethe-institut-opening-reception-master-class-with-akinbode-akinbiyi-and-uche-okpa-iroha#sthash.QNgOl9SX.dpuf

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