Cristina de Middel, Benedicte Kurzen and Robin Maddock show different sides of Nigeria

June 24, 2015 Marco | Editor

By Tom Seymour

It isn’t often a group photography show can boast the names of Cristina de Middel, Benedicte Kurzen and Robin Maddock.

This collaboration, titled Shine Ur Eye, brings together and explores their recent response to living in Lagos, Nigeria, while contrasting each photographers’ dramatically different photographic process.

Each photographer found themselves in Nigeria for different reasons, and have responded to the complex layers of Nigerian society in different ways. Exhibited together, their work forms an original photographic essay on Nigeria, recognising the intermingling traditions and practices that shape Nigerian culture.

British photographer Robin Maddock is displaying, for the first time, digitised images he discovered …read more

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