“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.

Free access to health care

Lagos -  Unauthorised mobile pharmacy. It is cheaper and less restricted. The articles range from vitamins and painkillers to viagra and condoms. The seller carries the basket on his or her head…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

Independent Energy

Lagos -  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

NEPA

Lagos -  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

OYO in the street.

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

Rice loaders

Lagos -  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

Palm oil for sale

Lagos -  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

Sleeping space

Lagos -  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

Mobile energy barbershop

Lagos -  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

NFA

Lagos -  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

Obeying Nature Call

Lagos -  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 tailoring apprentice

Lagos -  A taloring apprentice who recently migrated from the nothern Nigeria to Lagos sewing cloth at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made it…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

The Barbers

Lagos -  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

Creativity and Survival1

Lagos -  Well, the two photos I will send today deal with water. I will like to put the photos under the titled borrow from a sociologist Annalisa Butticci called Creativity and…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

War against green lagos

Lagos -  A green flower plant struggling to survive in a mechanic workshop…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

Obeying nature’s call

Lagos -  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

Business of legiums

Lagos -  A young boy who recently migrated from the nothern Nigeria to Lagos is assisting and learning the business of legiums at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Tones of goods

Lagos -  Cart pusher moving tones of goods from the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transitional trading. This has made it a hub for many new comers in Lagos…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Creativity and Survival

Lagos -  One of the Hausa new comers at Obalende – Lagos filling jerrycans with water from a private owned borehole to supply around Lagos. Though, Lagos is surrounded by oceans, seas…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

A young girl walking

Lagos -  A young girl walking through the frontage of a Nigerian traditional designed house in Ibadan, Nigeria.…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

Waiting wheelbarrow

Lagos -  Waiting wheelbarrow use for moving things for money at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made it a hub for many new comers…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Ricemasters

Lagos -  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

Mobile Telephone booth

Lagos -  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

Every disappointment can be a blessing

Lagos -  This young man runs a phone battery recharging service. There is the saying ‘every disappointment can be a blessing’. This certainly applies to the battery recharging services dotted across the…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa