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PAPA-Lab Lagos Nigeria has taken place from 7th till 28 th of September 2009. The hosting organisation is The African Artists’ Foundation. Final presentation Exhibition Initial Pattern on Friday 25th of September 2009 at African Artists’ Foundation. PAPA-Lab Lagos has worked with a mixed group of artists and photojournalists. Director: Lino Hellings Participating artists: PAPA Nigeria are: Toye Gbade, Tuoyo Omagba, Israel Ophori, Folarin Shasanya, Andrew Esiebo, Adolphus Opara, Eremina Jumbo, Babasola Bamiro , Zemaye Okediji, Godswill Ayemoba. The program has been mainly be developed on the spot.
Monday 7th of September 2009
Lagos -
On the streets you often see people gesticulating while on their mobile phones. GSM – Global System for Mobile communications also known as ‘General Street Madness’…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
GSM – Global System for Mobile communications also known as ‘General Street Madness’ in Nigeria. The image shows some people engrossed in their mobiles.…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Since the introduction of GSM in Nigeria almost everyone has several mobile phones, one for each of their four or five businesses. As they cannot be physically present at all…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
The Lagos State Rapid Response Squad uses these huge armored vehicles to stand guard over petrol stations and other locations that require extra security. This is probably due to the…
Folarin Shasanya –
Lagos Lab
To finalize our research we made news about the forces in Public Space which pop up when you go slightly out of the script. In a positive and a negative…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Almost everywhere you go in Nigeria you are likely to find signs like this (FOOD IS READY) it’s about the most enterprising business for small scale people mostly women and…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Nearly every Nigerian man supports at least one international club and hardly any of them support Nigerian teams. Every now and then they argue about whose club is better. Wearing…
Toye Gbade –
Lagos Lab
From nowhere young men in bright coloured shirts appear and start organising the traffic. Organising a way out for the boss?…
Eremina Jumbo –
Lagos Lab
Since the introduction of GSM in Nigeria almost everyone has a phone and you would find people making calls almost every where and almost all the time. Some at work…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
At about 8 in the evening at Tafawa Balewa Square, a worker is still able to make a call or buy units for his phone at one of the thousands…
Folarin Shasanya –
Lagos Lab
This photo was erased but brought back into the world by the genius Tuoyo. We took a walk over the bridge today and met a lot of hidden forces in…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
There are taps in some of the houses but the water that comes out is dark brown. ‘In need of water? Find the boy who bought it from people…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
You cannot imagine it maybe, but there is a market under this bridge on the left in the picture. We are to busy. Where are we hurrying to? Eremina Jumbo…
Eremina Jumbo –
Lagos Lab
People dont dress up with guns like this often, infact it only happens once a year, there is obviously something responsible for this and that is the hidden force.
In…
Adolphus Opara –
Lagos Lab
A local barber shaving a customer’s hair with unsterilized sharp objects. Chances are that he may contract a HIV virus from the blood of several customers who have also had…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
The Marian Shrine located in the garden of a catholic church gives people an opportunity to drink holy water for free whenever it is open. This “installation†has taps on…
Folarin Shasanya –
Lagos Lab
A lot of the people running the public transport system work all night. They take naps in the midst of a vast chaos of sounds and smells.…
Adolphus Opara –
Lagos Lab
The Central Bank of Nigeria recently fired the leaders and boards of directors of several banks. In a country hit hard by the economic crisis, many of these powerful banks…
Folarin Shasanya –
Lagos Lab
Praise the lord is what you need in this mad traffic. Lino told us cars in Holland can have a sign of a fish on the back, meaning these people…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
It is very uncommon to see a human being climbing in a bamboo like this. You need to have spiritual forces hidden in your body to do this. The tribe…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
We are too busy with activities. We forget about our vegetables. How can we protect them?…
Eremina Jumbo –
Lagos Lab
In a society (Nigeria) where dependency of energy is vested on the government. Fortunately or unfortunately this leader have failed in creating this energy dependency making million of Nigerian to…
Andrew Esiebo –
Lagos Lab
Mai kakari (Hausa for manicurist). One can easily contract anyform of infection from his tools that are not well sterilised, they usually just apply Soapy fluids to soften the nails…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab