by Christopher Obuh | Jan 7, 2026 | Portfolio
At Federal Government Printing Press, February 2024 The exhibition presents No Food for Lazy Man, a body of work including photography, text and a video installation, exploring labour in Lagos city with particular focus on the automobile spare parts market called...
by Christopher Obuh | Jan 7, 2026 | Portfolio
Curatorial Statement: Sea Never Dry Sea Never Dry takes its name from the long-term photographic series by Akinbode Akinbiyi, who since 1982 has returned to Bar Beach, Lagos, observing how its shoreline reflects the city’s shifting rhythms. His images form a rare...
by Christopher Obuh | Jan 7, 2026 | Portfolio
Known as ‘Little Lagos’, Peckham is home to one of the largest Nigerian diaspora communities in the UK. Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes is a major group exhibition looking at the connections between Lagos in Nigeria and Peckham in south east London....
by Christopher Obuh | Jan 7, 2026 | News & Insights
Lagos is full of monuments and statues. In 2016, I became interested in statues and how they live in urban spaces in cities throughout Africa. Statues came to Africa through the colonizers from Europe who used them to mark their territories and immortalize themselves....
by Christopher Obuh | Jan 7, 2026 | News & Insights
Christopher Obuh is a Nigerian photographer and visual artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. Using photography and video, his work focuses on environmental issues, social issues, post-colonialism and modernisation within the context of globalisation. As part of our...
