I recently had the pleasure of attending the MTV Africa Music awards (The Mama Awards) in Lagos In Nigeria. I went up to do a story for Dazed&&Confused magazine and was accompanied by the editor of the magazine Rod Stanley.
Adjusting our internal clocks onto African time we hit the streets doing features on the over 8 African musicians from around the continent who where nominated for the awards, Yeni Kuti (Fela's daughter) who we shot at the Shrine which is based on the original one built by Fela in the 80's and another on the organiser of the event and MTV Africa director and creator, Alex Okosi.
It was a crazy experience with most of the dust still settling in side my head.
I thought I would post 3 pics from the trip.
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| With a exchange rate of 150 to the dollar we had a pile of 1000 Naira notes. You exchange your notes with guys called Bookies on the side of the road. |
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| Horrific traffic is an understatement when it comes to Lagos. Its busy polluted and the roads are full of potholes. Many business's have been created due to it though and you will find all kinds of products from food to books to DVD's been sold on the side of the road. |
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| Cabo Snoop and his producer and manager where one of our subjects for the Dazed Shoot. Other artists we shot where Chuck D (USA), Banky W(Nigera), Sasha(Nigeria) and Radio and Weasel (Uganda) to name a few. |
1 comment:
Nice Chris! Really interesting shots!
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