Photographing Lagos, ‘As Much an Experience as a Place’ – The New York Times

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Photographing Lagos, ‘As Much an Experience as a Place’

Robin Hammond set out to document Lagos, a teeming metropolis where “intimacy and exclusion, love and hate, laughter and insult regularly rub shoulders” on its streets.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/photographing-lagos-as-much-an-experience-as-a-place/

Robin Hammond: I have been an outsider most of my life. As an immigrant or photographer in the countries where I have lived and worked, I have not truly belonged. I’ve been a foreigner for so long that I don’t really know anything else. It has become part of who I am.