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When contemporary reality conflicts with curatorial expectations

My photography series about modern Lagos gets rejected from African art exhibitions because the curators say it does not capture the essence of Nigeria

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The photographer encounters the gap between lived experience and institutionalized ideas of cultural representation.

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