Participating Artists Press Agency
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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 -
The engineers (car mechanics) on Military St, Onikan, have painted the wall in the colors of the Nigerian flag. They put up hooks for their clothes to hang on whilst…
Folarin Shasanya –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
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
Lagos -
Some plants and a notice on a piece of plywood. This way you can open up several shops and businesses at the same time. …
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
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passion and craft on the street, my collegue Tuoyo recording a street businessman…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Bread hawkers in Lagos used to go around with butter or margarine; some people who buy the bread would like to have it cut in half with butter richly spread…
Toye Gbade –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
How many people fit on one motorcycle? Count it for yourself…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
You do not have to starve in the traffic jam.…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
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
Lagos -
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
Lagos -
This is a cobbler, He does his trade on the streets looking for clients while walking.…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
The five of us where just about leaving for Lagos Mainland when a group of artists/painters of trucks and busses arrived. AAF is running a project with these ‘grass roots’…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
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
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Northerners, newcomers, exhausted from the many days journey southward, onboard goods and livestock supply truck, can always…
Toye Gbade –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
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
Lagos -
Ramadan and it’s prayer time. These devout people have carved out a little road-side space near their place of business to pray. Note they have a clock to remind them…
Toye Gbade –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
The mobile shopkeepers and craftsmen look so well dressed and clean. How do they do that? ‘This is a girl who is supposed to be in school but is out…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
You can read this on several houses in our street. It tells the story of a deceased person with many children who cannot agree on the legacy. To prefend one…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
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
Lagos -
The woodworkers situated on Boyle St, Onikan, leave a sample door and ladder propped up against a defunct telephone pole to advertise their trade.…
Folarin Shasanya –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
We are too busy with activities. We forget about our vegetables. How can we protect them?…
Eremina Jumbo –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
In every tourist guide about Lagos you can read about the ‘area boys’, gangs of men and boys who ‘own’ the place (unofficially). They supply services you have not asked…
Adolphus Opara –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
My source of income being a street tailor. I make a musical rythm with my scissors to attrack customers while walking. You can invite me in your house…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
It is the tradition here to place a keg (a small barrel of about 30 gallons) on a vehicle to show that it is for sale. Such a keg would…
Toye Gbade –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
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