In today’s fast-paced world where many creative hands seek to be multidisciplinary in their practice, there is a talent who sticks to his calling, or rather, ‘what he knows best’.
Welcome to the creative world of Tosin Junaid, a Nigerian visual artist whose medium is simply photography.
Yes, photography. But Junaid has taken his photography a notch higher and has carved a niche for himself. He uses portraiture as a tool to explore memory, identity, and cultural preservation.
“My work examines the gradual erosion of African identity through westernization, questioning how inherited traditions, aesthetics, and ways of being are reshaped or forgotten in the pursuit of modernity,” he says.
The above were evident in his latest series, which he entitled ‘Ara Rántí’, literarily translated as ‘The Body Remembers’, amid other subtitles such as: Eda, Ẹ̀wà Pupa, Hands That Remember and Instrument and Flesh.
The exhibition was well-attended across the many
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