Sokari Ekine

Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian Black British genderqueer feminist who has lived and worked in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. Ekine’s work focuses on decolonization, sexuality, and African diasporic spiritualities; in ways that overlap in their multiple roles as photographer, independent scholar, blogger and community builder. Their aim as a photographer is to shift the gaze from denigrating representations of African sacred traditions and instead present a narrative in which we as a people engage with a planetary consciousness that celebrates black humanity. They propose a space where the viewer is asked to consider traditional African ritual and healing practices and how these may respond and relate to the black body existing within a more speculative and subversive reality. In this way, Ekine's work reminds us of the intersections between cultural production, resistance, decolonization, ritual, and community.


Since 2007, Ekine has worked intermittently in Haiti as a documentary photographer, community organizer, educator, writer. Their lived experiences with spiritual communities in Haiti have produced a series of photo essays focusing on African Diasporic spirituality in Haitian Vodoun which are hi...

University of East London, BSc. University of London, School of Education, MA

Their work has been exhibited in such venues as the 4th Biennale of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, Berlin; PhotoVille, New York and Los Angeles; New Orleans African American Museum; AfroFuture at Art Basel, Miami; Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Photo Nola; ; Xavier University Gallery [Solo Exhibition]; Minnesota Marine Art Museum [Forthcoming]; New York State University at Stony Brook [Forthcoming Solo Exhibition];