“Andrew Esiebo”

Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1978, Andrew Esiebo is a self-taught freelance photographer chronicling the rapid development of urban Nigeria as well as the country's rich traditional culture and heritage. His work has been exhibited extensively both at home and abroad, at the, Sao Paulo Biennale, Havana Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial in Beijing and the Chobi Mela V Photo Festival in Bangladesh Noorderlicht Photo Festival, The Netherlands, African Photography Encounter, Mali among many others. He has been selected as the World Press Photo dream team member to for the 2010 project in South Africa and as a member of the Nigerian photography collective Black Box.

Lagos -  Mobile confectionery hawker in Lagos…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Lagos -  Mobile confectionery seller in Lagos …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

The barber uses two small generators to ensure his business goes uninterrupted by power failures. Generators are one of Nigeria’s main exports. Despite the government’s failure to assure electricity, users…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Lagos is city that doesn’t sleep. One of the many mobile café that sell coffee to keep the sense of the teeming mobile people going in Lagos. …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

You often see people sleeping during working hours in small-scale business places. This habit struck me. As I tried to find out why this man was sleeping at that time…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

A pendant of one of the gamblers who told to me that daily betting has brought some improvement to his financial situation. He even boasted he bought his pendant from…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Andrew Peji, arrived Lagos twenty years ago from Republic of Benin as a cook for the Military in Nigeria. Currently secretary of the Union of the commercial Tricycle motor bike…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

A young migrant from Kano, nothern Nigeria relaxing at Obalende after a long and hard day pushing people goods with wheel barrow for money. Barely able to speak the Nigeria…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Mobile ice cream seller.…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

NEPA, The Nigerian Electric Power Authority, is so unreliable that people started calling it Never Expect Power Always. Then the company changed its name to PHCN, Power Holding Company of…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

Woman from eastern in front of her store where she sells stockfish a.k.aOporoko at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Men who are mostly from northern Nigeria are off loading bags of rice into the wharehouse in Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Shoe accessories hawker …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

A barbers at the Iddo Terminus. Barbing is a job common among newcomers to the city. With little investment and less skill the business goes on.…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Mobile ice cream seller.…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

NFA No Future Ambition. A prayer man at the beach. A common practices in many spaces and beaches in Lagos. In a country where our future is characterized with uncertainties…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

A woman left lonely and uncared for on the street. What is in her bags?…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

Men from western Nigeria reading newpapers at one of the rice stores at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made it a hub…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

During my WildWalk, while attempting to walk through this space I was stopped and warned not to pass through it, as it is a sleeping space for some homeless people…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

With a big umbrella, the cheapest phone of less than 10 dollars many new comers make their daily living through the Mobile Telephone booth popularly known as Payphone that dots…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

An old man at sleeping at football pool betting office. Sleeping during working hours is often experienced in many small-scale business places. This habit struck me. As I tried to…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

A man moving bag of rice as kegs of palm oil waits buyers across the country and beyond at at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Roasted meat seller in Lagos.…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

People gathering to have a glance or read of the day’s news at one of the many newspaper stands in Lagos. …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria