ABUJA PHOTO FESTIVAL

Exhibiting Artists

Rashidi Nadhir

 PROJECT STATEMENT  In a world increasingly dominated by formal legal systems and digital frameworks, this photo series captures a deeply rooted alternative community-based justice, preserved and practiced by the Maasai in Arusha, Tanzania. In August 2025, a group of young men faced communal judgment after publicly embarrassing the nation’s president. But instead of prison cells […]

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Aremu Olatunji

Artist Statement  In a world where borders are drawn and redrawn by systems, emotions remain the deepest form of connection. Growing up in the heart of Lagos, I saw how people carried stories in their eyes, in their stillness, in their scars. What connects us as human beings isn’t just language, geography, or even culture

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KALADA BRIGGS

ARTIST STATEMENT As an aerial photographer, I use the sky as my lens to reveal new ways of seeing Africa, from the hidden beauty of the Niger Delta waterways to the fast-changing skylines of Port Harcourt and other cities in Arica. From above, I can capture how environment, culture, and development are all connected. This

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Sergey Yudin

Artist Statement – А Touch Despite the difference in skin color, these two hands merge in a single desire. They symbolize the power that transcends all differences. This photo is a reminder us that mutual understanding between people that is all that truly matters.

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Ohene Kwasi

ARTIST STATEMENT – Hands Across A series of candid and posed images showing people from different backgrounds, neighborhoods playing, helping each other, and holding hands — symbolizing the pure, instinctive connections we form as humans before borders, biases, and differences set in.  “Hands Across” explores how humans instinctively connect through play, working, kindness, and shared

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Aremu Olatunji

Artist Statement  In a world where borders are drawn and redrawn by systems, emotions remain the deepest form of connection. Growing up in the heart of Lagos, I saw how people carried stories in their eyes, in their stillness, in their scars. What connects us as human beings isn’t just language, geography, or even culture

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Rashidi Nadhir

PROJECT STATEMENT  In a world increasingly dominated by formal legal systems and digital frameworks, this photo series captures a deeply rooted alternative community-based justice, preserved and practiced by the Maasai in Arusha, Tanzania. In August 2025, a group of young men faced communal judgment after publicly embarrassing the nation’s president. But instead of prison cells

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Mayowa Adebote

Artist Statement In Lagos, a city, where one side resists the other, this bridge becomes a lifeline — reminding us that no matter how divided we seem, we remain deeply and inevitably connected. Each pixel in this drone shot that presents Africa’s second-longest bridge goes beyond geography, it connects people across class divides, draw people

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Aga Luczakowska

ARTIST STATEMENT Râsu’-plânsul / Ciudat (Laughing through tears – human connections in a changing city)This project explores the profound human connections formed in the face of disconnection and displacement. After Romania’s communist era, thousands of families were uprooted from rural communities and relocated into blocuri—vast apartment complexes designed for uniformity. These concrete structures were meant

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SAMUEL OKECHUKWU

Artist StatementAs humans, we are susceptible to change. My photographs capture human connection, continuous transformation, and the ways we evolve in relation to our environment.  My work is woven with the thread of a shared human experience within a connected space. I aim to spark important conversations that make us think and question how our

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