LAGOS PHOTO FESTIVAL EXPANDS FRONTIER

LagosPhoto is expanding its annual festival to create a year-round programme of exhibitions and workshops in Lagos, Nigeria. Please back our Kickstarter campaign by pledging here:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2042961719/lagosphoto-2015-the-year-of-photography On the fifth anniversary of the festival, LagosPhoto expands in 2015 with "The Year of Photography," a year-round programme of exhibitions and workshops in Lagos. As the festival outgrows its month-long annual presentation to encompass a comprehensive and permanent educational platform, LagosPhoto will present a ten-month initiative leading up to the sixth edition of LagosPhoto in October 2015. Programmes will include a series of solo exhibitions highlighting new work of participating artists, a group thematic exhibition that explores the relationship between photography and design, residencies for international artists to produce new photographic work in Lagos, and workshops, talks and extended mentorship for emerging photographers.  The Year of Photography will allow renowned international and local photographers to interact with new audiences in the country, promoting quality artworks to the forefront of Nigerian culture. This project has been selected by Art Basel's independent jury to be a part of the Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative.  https://www.kickstarter.com/pages/artbasel Wazaonline.com presents Waza Spoken Word Event in Lagos on Friday, 5th December,2014. A whole day of spoken word workshops and performances, free of charge! Workshops will be held at the African Artist Foundation (54, Raymond Njoku Street, Ikoyi ) from 2pm-4pm.   Spoken Word- Tell Your Truth Event will start at 6 pm at the British Council, 20 Thompson Street, Ikoyi, Lagos with performances by 7 of Nigeria's leading spoken word artists. Sign up on Facebook event ‘WAZA Spoken Word Lagos’. Wazaonline, your story, your world. BLOCK PARTY is back!! and the African Artists' Foundation will be hosting an Art Sale during the party with all pieces of art under N50,000! Date - Saturday, December 6th Venue - 54 Raymond Njoku Street, Ikoyi Time - 10am - 8pm CURATOR'S TALK: AMY POWELL Date- Saturday, December 6th Venue- AAF, 54 Raymond Njoku Street, Ikoyi Time- 1pm  Amy L. Powell is a Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. Her research on global contemporary art and film has included the exhibitions Zineb Sedira: Lighthouse in the Sea of Time, Clarissa Tossin: Blind Spot, Anna Campbell: Under Water and Into the Sunset, and Antena @ Blaffer, which featured a book-space  group exhibition, series of public programmes, and forthcoming book with the language experimentation and language justice collaborative Antena, comprised of poets, translators, and activist interpreters Jen Hofer and John Pluecker.  Powell's current projects include Time / Image, an international group exhibition of artworks and films with deep investments in questions of time, and a solo exhibition of new work by Zinadu Saro-Wiwa commemorating the twentieth anniversary of her father’s death, the late writer, environmental and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.  Powell completed a Ph.D. in art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012, where her research was supported by a Chancellor’s Fellowship, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution. She was previously postdoctoral curatorial fellow at Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, and in 2014 she was awarded a curatorial research grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.  The 2015 World Press Photo & Multimedia Contests are now open for entries. Deadline for submissions- Wednesday, January 14, 2015 For over 55 years the World Press Photo contest has encouraged the highest standards in photojournalism.The contest creates a bridge linking the professionals with the general public. All the prize-winning photographs are assembled into an exhibition that travels to 45 countries over the course of a year, and published in a yearbook. Enter the contest>> http://www.worldpressphoto.org/contest LagosPhoto Exhibition- Highlights and Recap Exhibiting Artists at the 2014 LagosPhoto Festival Exhibiting Artists at the 2014 LagosPhoto Festival with staff of the the LagosPhoto Foundation.

The Molue Mobile Museum of Contemporary Art at the LagosPhoto Festival

An observer at the Constant Capital Opening Reception. Etisalat CEO-Matthew Wilsher & his wife Deborah Wilsher at the LagosPhoto Gala. Lagos State Commissioner of Tourism&Intergovernmental Relations, Mr Disun Holloway and Roger Woodbridge Ben Chislett & Eva Maria Ocherbauer,facilitators at the 2014 LagosPhoto Summer School with the participants at a workshop. More guests at the Grand Opening of the LagosPhoto Festival 2014. Guests at the 2014 LagosPhoto Gala themed "Who no know go know" Joseph Gergel(Co-Curator,LagosPhoto Foundation), Wunika Mukan(Brand Director,LagosPhoto Foundation) and exhibiting artists at the 2014 LagosPhoto Grand Opening Reception, Eko Hotels and Suites. More guests at the Constant Capital Opening Reception. Guests at the LagosPhoto Private Viewing Reception. Guests at the Private Viewing of the LagosPhoto Festival 2014. Screening of The Supreme Price by students of the Youth Empowerment through Contemporary Art programme at the iRep/LagosPhoto Film Screening- Freedom park. Wunika Mukan and YECA students at the iRep/ LagosPhoto film screening Guests at the Omenka Gallery Opening Reception. Hans Wilschut and Hope Opara at the Constant Capital Opening Reception. Guests at the LagosPhoto Grand Opening Reception. Guests at the Omenka Gallery Opening Reception.

Images from the 2014 National Art Competition Grand Finale The 2014 NAC Winners-Paul Mbah (Outstanding Concept), Erasmus Onyisi (Grand Prize Winner) and Modupeola Fadugba (Outstanding Production) Ada Umeofia's project titled "V-Stall" Amarachi Okafor's project titled "Ask Yourself" Emmanuel Dudu's project titled "Mat-Matics" Erasmus Onyishi's Grand Prize