Photographers of “Home Is More Than A Place”
Sianeh A. Kpukuyou
Multi-talented photographer and creative director with over 5 years of experience. Sianeh is known for capturing work that stimulates nostalgia. Through storytelling and visuals, she celebrates communities and shares authentic stories.
Bernard Kalu
Bernard Kalu (b. 1989) is a Lagos Nigeria born visual artist; with a passion for humans and the stories they tell simply by existing. Bernard began working in photography in 2014, exploring street documentary and creative twists to wedding photography- with Auxano Photography, now Aletheia by Kabenny. He is a certified Canon Miraisha master storyteller, VII Academy Foundry alumni, first runner up in the 2017 NATGEO Portfolio Review, a nominee for World Press Photo 6X6 Global talent 2020 and has been on assignment with a number of organizations within and outside Nigeria. Also, he is a member of Diversify Photo (a global collective of BIPOC visual Journalists) and African Photojournalism Database (APJD) (a joint project by World Press Photo and Everyday Africa) and the convener of the SPWWBK (Street Photography Workshop with Bernard Kalu) through which he engages and mentors a good number of upcoming visual storytellers. Furthermore, he is an official Fujifilm Global X-Photographer.
Rachel Seidu
Rachel Seidu (b.1997) is a visual artist working across photography and film in creating intimate, emotive portraits reflecting diverse stories and realities. Her practice involves a technical exploration of and experimentation with shadows, contrast and natural lighting. In 2022, Seidu photographed the cover of the 2022 edition of We Need New Names, the Booker shortlisted novel by Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo. She was also shortlisted for the James Barnor and Yaa Asantewaa Prize in 2022. Selected group exhibition include Let’s take a moment (2022), O’da Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, Sòrò Sókè (2022), Foto Wein, Young Contemporaries Exhibition (2020), Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria and Boundaries of Reason(2021), Abuja Photo Festival, Abuja, Nigeria. Seidu is a member of Black Women Photographers and the African Photojournalism Database. She lives and works in Lagos.
Yonas Tadesse
Yonas was born and raised in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. He is a self-taught African photographer fascinated by art from a young age. He managed to use all the resources around him, as limited as they are in his country’s context to bring his talent to the forefront of Ethiopian art and photography. Having great eyes for art and richness of stories, his inner drive comes from the meaning behind images. In Africa there are stories everywhere, everything has a voice if given the means to speak. With the goal of being an outlet, an instrument to voice this African beauty all over the world.
Adebayo Abayomi
Adebayo Abayomi is a documentary photographer from Kwara State, Nigeria. He is passionate about storytelling, publicizing underreported issues, and documenting health, social, environmental, political, and cultural stories in local communities.
He has worked on projects that have successfully given a voice to marginalized and vulnerable communities. Abayomi holds a degree in Industrial Chemistry from Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State. He has covered Intriguing cultural stories such as Durbar Festival in Kano and Kwara; Olojo Festival in Osun; Awon Mass Wedding Festival in Kwara; Osun Osogbo Festival; Voodoo Festival in Benin Republic. He has also covered social stories like the Leprosarium Project, where he curated stories of individuals affected by leprosy and neglected by society. “Survival,” an IDP camp story that showcased the struggle that camp inhabitants went through before getting a place to call home again after years of unending war, is another notable story by Adebayo Abayomi.
As a photographer, Abayomi holds firm the belief that photography is a way to capture stories that can stand the test of time. Over the years, he has been a part of local exhibitions in Kwara state, Ogun state, Lagos, and Abuja, some of which are Fotoclique (2017), The Rookie Club (2018), KUTA’s exhibition (2019), ArtXlagos (2020), Colors of Hope (2021). He is an Author of an e-book titled “A World with Different Stories,” which was published in 2017.
Abayomi has done several humanitarian projects like “A Dream,” a project centered on getting primary school children back to school, and has worked for both Local and International Organizations on health, society, and political related stories.
Moha Sheikh
Muhammad Mubarak popularly known as Moha Sheikh is a documentary and travel photographer based in Kano State. He spends most of his time documenting compelling stories for personal and professional work. His passion about story telling slowly turned into a lifestyle. Moha Sheikh specialises in travel, documentary, and drone piloting and his main vision is to captivate audience attention through his unique perspective which is evident through art and culture, people and places, color and space. He has extensively covered issues around climate change nexus with security, migration and deforestation in Nigeria and Niger Republic. He believes that creating compelling stories can take different roots. In his approach, he employ visual storytelling as evidence to drive sensitive conversations on socio-political dynamics to influence discourse on how individuals and stakeholders should interact with facts. Some of his works includes:
Desertification in Yobe’s Yusufari Oasis (a work for TULIP INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION)
Bianou Festival (Niger’s exciting Fashion Festival)
Makoko (The floating Slum of Lagos)
The Durbar Festival ( a photo series of the Durbar Festival in Nigeria)
Zachary Caldwell
Zach Caldwell is a photographer and cinematographer whose work focuses on conflict, post-conflict, and human rights around the world. Over the past ten years, he has documented wars and conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Libya, Haiti, and Sudan. He is most interested in the banality of conflict, Neo-colonial power in Africa via private military contractors, and the community response to war. He is currently the Director of Photography for VICE News and is based in Brooklyn, NY.
Badara Preira
Born in Dakar, in the mythical district of Niarry Talli in 1993, Badara Preira is a self-educated artist who uses photography as his principal medium. His photography journey started in 2015. He then became a leading member of the new generation of photographers in Senegal shaping the direction of the practice of photography in the Senegalese art scene.
His main trait as a photographer is to let himself be guided by the emotions of the moment, with an immeasurable desire to be able to convey them as they are to everyone who lays eyes on his photographs. Fully aware that this is an ideal to be achieved, he is sensitive to many human causes, and has put this motivation to work in the field of social photography, with projects involving street children, the homeless and refugees. His work has recently been exhibited in Musée De La Photographie Du Senegal, in St Louis.
He has been commissioned by French Institute of Dakar, Channel, 19M Gallery, The Olympics.He also has been featured in Vogue Magazine, Figaro Magazine, Wallpaper Magazine.
He's a traveler. On his own initiative, he never hesitates to hit the road on his bike, armed with his camera, for a tour of the country. This is how he encounters and captures life and different stories.