EFYA NOKTURNAL Photograph - Limited Edition of 3

Random Photo Journal is the study of the social ecology of neighbourhoods and living conditions in West Africa. This new way of seeing is consistent, ongoing, and yearly, about the intricate and delicate everyday lifestyle of Africans living on the continent. It is an idealogy that is alive, and ever young with the cultural times that play out in sub and mainstream cultures within the African continent. A lot of the images I have made come from two times six months of road trips to states and cities in Nigeria where I lived temporarily and moved on to other spaces, using language as a key into the civilisation: Pidgin, Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Twi, Akan, French. Many of the images also come from being in Ghana for a good number of years documenting the rise of the skate culture, in some cities in Togo: Lome. Benin republic: Porto-Novo especially, Ouidah, and other trade routes. The documentary role my photography plays is solving the problem of honest representation in the street and fine art photography, my main goal is to bend the rules of traditional photography or change how images can be read by those outside the African continent. I consider my photography a marketing tool to intimately study geographical locations and a catalogue of unpublished works floating on social media as an accessible inspirational repository for filmmakers, artists, stylists and visual anthropologists. The narrative strategy I am developing to capture and comprehend the events shaping the world around us is to try to interpret, photographically, that Africa can be a country because of prevalent similarities.