African Photography Comes of Age With Lagos Photo Festival – The New York Times

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African Photography Comes of Age With Lagos Photo Festival

This year’s Lagos Photo Festival goes beyond traditional photojournalism to explore how conceptual work can offer a deeper exploration of the issues facing the continent.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/african-photography-comes-of-age-with-lagos-photo-festival/

The work on show at the sixth edition of the Lagos Photo Festival, which opens in Nigeria’s main city this weekend, offers some answers. With a theme of “Designing Futures,” and with photography featuring large-scale cinematic productions with elaborate sets, props and subjects as collaborators, the festival celebrates creative thinking in a quest for new ideas and experimental forms of storytelling.