LagosPhoto Festival extends open call for submission of portfolio for its 2023 portfolio review
The LagosPhoto Festival invites photographers from the African continent and the diaspora to submit their Portfolios for its 2023 Portfolio Review
LagosPhoto, an international arts festival of photography in Nigeria, has announced an extension of its open call for submission of portfolios for its 2023 portfolio review.
In its announcement, it “invites photographers from the African continent and the diaspora to submit their Portfolios for its 2023 Portfolio Review.”
To apply, send a coherent and consistent body of work in a single pdf file format to reviews@lagosphotofestival.com for a chance to present your portfolio to the panel of judges consisting of leading gallerists, publishers, educators, and experts from National Geographic and other leading organisations.
Deadline for submissions: 30th September 2023. For inquiries, write to info@lagosphotofestival.com
LagosPhoto Festival 2023
In a press statement earlier this year, the organisers of the LagosPhoto Festival announced the festival will be returning for its 14th edition in the fall of 2023 with the theme; Ground State – fellowship within the uncanny and is curated by AAF’s founder and director Azu Nwagbogu, and East Wing Artistic Director (Dubai, UAE) Peggy Sue Amison. It stated that the theme for this year’s edition “seeks to explore the present moment and envision ways to restore, repair, and restitute the mysteries of histories that are crucial for our survival.” It also stated that the festival will present a special solo presentation by artist Omar Viktor Diop curated by Maria Pia Bernardoni.
It added that the festival “seeks projects that explore the present moment and envision how repair, syncopation, putrefaction, restitution, and restoration will take place; challenging our own complicity in a culture of desire, founded on consumption and how to foster a fellowship of dynamic spiritual change, a rebirthing of the unimaginable.”
This edition of the festival is scheduled to take place from October 27th to December 31st, 2023, and for the first time in its history, the event will be held beyond Lagos, extending to Cotonou, Ouidah, and Port-Novo in Benin. It stated that “this geographical expansion offers a wider audience the opportunity to engage with the powerful works of talented photographers, challenging our own complicity in a culture of desire founded on consumption.”
With this expansion, emerging and established artists around the world working with lens-based media are encouraged to submit their projects. Artists are invited to showcase new perspectives of humanity’s revival and equilibrium through hopeful visions of social, political, environmental, and spiritual change.
About LagosPhoto Festival
Launched in 2010, LagosPhoto is the first international arts festival of photography in Nigeria. In a month-long festival, events include exhibitions, workshops, artist presentations, discussions, and large scale outdoor prints displayed throughout the city with the aim of reclaiming public spaces and engaging the general public with multifaceted stories of Africa.
LagosPhoto aims to establish a community for contemporary photography which will unite local and international artists through images that encapsulate individual experiences and identities from across all of Africa. LagosPhoto presents and educates about photography as it is embodied in the exploration of historical and contemporary issues, the sharing of cultural practices, and the promotion of social programmes.
About AAF
African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) founded in 2007, Lagos, Nigeria, is a decentralized, multivalent, metamorphic art space that embraces community values, experimental artistic principles in supporting boundary-breaking and artistic ideas. Over the years, AAF has evolved beyond the limiting shell of a non-profit, to embody an art space that is responsive, attuned to social justice issues, ecology, freedom, community initiatives by empowering creative expression.
AAF is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of contemporary art, design, and culture through residencies, workshops, innovative exhibitions, and educational programs.
