Nigeria represents a deep creative antagonism: embracing contemporary creativity with verve while Nigerian traditionalism fights to “keep the status quo.”
Is it possible for Nigerian ‘contemporary creativity’ and ‘traditionalism’ to co-exist?
The brilliant photographer Paul Abbah in his vibrant project, The Order Of Things, is not so sure?
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The creative scape in Nigeria is one of the fastest in the world in terms of development and quality of talent. This is because we have tapped into our unique stories as a people.
The social economic situation of Nigeria has not only disconnected the young people from their love for this place but has also caused them to reach for spaces beyond.
With the project I was trying to visually represent a thought I had sometime, back about how things go, and I am usually told to accept this cause it’s “the order of things.” I have gradually grown tired of accepting this as a norm, hence the depiction of someone leaping to freedom in the first image on the series.
The representation of the ladies in hijabs came to me when I thought about the people that have been made to accept the status quo. The “order of things” is a series that seeks to challenge my minds need to accept things as they’re while pushing back.
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