Emerlo from the series Love of it, - Limited Edition of 3 Photograph

Born in Lagos, Nigeria. Andrew Esiebo is a visual storyteller exploring themes such as sexuality, gender politics, football, popular culture, migration, religion and spirituality. He is a winner of the 2011 Musee du Quai Branly Artistic creation prize. Andrew has been awarded a number of artistic residencies including the Cultures France's Visa Pour Creation, Paris, Africa Beyond programme, Gasworks, London, Gyeonggi Creation Center in South Korea, and Bag factory Art residency Johannesburg, South Africa. His work has been exhibited at the Sao Paulo biennial in Brazil, Biennale Cuvee in Linz-Austria, Photo Quai biennials in Paris-France, Dakart Biennale-Senegal, Guangzhou Triennial in Beijing-China, the Chobi Mela V Photo Festival in Bangladesh, Havanna Biennial in Havanna-Cuba, Noorderlitch Photo Festival in Netherlands, National Football Museum in Manchester-England, African Photography Encounters in Bamako-Mali, and the Lagos Photo Festival among others. He works are in several private and public art collections. He has given several lectures and talks on photography and is one of the facilitators at Nlele Institut- a Lagos based learning space and an experimental workstation a grooming ground for photographers. He is based in Nigeria from where he works around the world.