George Osodi

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George Osodi (* 1974 in Lagos ) is a Nigerian photographer . After working as a press photographer, Osodi has also been successful in the international art world since the mid-2000s .

Life

George Osodi grew up in Ogwashi-Uku, a city in the Delta State of Nigeria. He studied business administration at Yaba College of Technology in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, and then worked for a short time as an accountant for the Nigerian bank SGBN. From 1999 to 2002 Osodi was press photographer for the now discontinued newspaper The Comet in Lagos. In 2002 he moved to the Associated Press news agency . His photographs have appeared in publications such as the New York Times , Time Magazine , and in Spiegel . In 2004 he was awarded first prize in the Fujifilm African Photojournalist of the Year competition.

Osodi's work is somewhere between critical reportage photography and artistic documentary photography. His subjects are mostly the social, economic and ecological exploitation of people and nature in the Niger Delta. He works in color . Osodi lives and works in Lagos.

"I have always seen photography as an instrument for communication and change and because I am a realist, I prefer to work with colors. With photography, the real subjects are recorded with such unsurpassed precision. I am always with my camera purposely to record every moment of interest. "

- George Osodi : 2007

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2008: Paradise Lost , Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos.
  • 2007: George Osodi: Lagos Uncelebrated , Goethe-Institut Lagos.
  • 2004: Living The Highlife , British Council , NIMBUS Art Center, Lagos.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011: The art of slowing down. Movement and calm in art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei , with a selection of 30 color photographs from the Lagos Uncelebrated series , 2004–2007 , presented as a slide show on 5 monitors. Wolfsburg Art Museum .
  • 2008: Fragile Democracy - new international photography . Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland .
  • 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel. The work Oil Rich Niger Delta - Photography 2003–2007 was shown.
  • 2006: Nigeria Eviction , Amnesty International , shown in Abuja and London.
  • 2004–2005: STADTanSICHTen Lagos , ifa galleries , Berlin and Stuttgart.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Femi Salawu: How I lost my car, fiancée to photography - George Osodi . In: Daily Sun, Lagos, Nigeria, dated August 8, 2007. Available online ( memento of the original dated November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved July 1, 2008.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sunnewsonline.com
  2. ↑ Translation: "For me, photography is an instrument for communication and change. Since I work realistically, I prefer color photos. Photographs allow the mapping of the real subjects with unsurpassed precision. I always have my camera with me to preserve every interesting moment . "
  3. ↑ Paradise Lost , Center for Contemporary Art Lagos, March 29 - May 3, 2008. Available online (Retrieved July 1, 2008).
  4. ↑ George Osodi: Lagos Uncelebrated , Goethe-Institut Lagos, June 30 - July 20, 2007. Available online ( Accessed July 1, 2008).
  5. ↑ The Art of Deceleration ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
  6. ^ Fragile Democracy - new international photography . Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, May 2 - June 21, 2008. Available online. (Accessed July 1, 2008.)
  7. ^ Documenta 12 , Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007. Materials by and about George Osodi in the documenta archive
  8. ↑ STADTanSICHTen Lagos , ifa-Galerie Berlin, August 27 - October 17, 2004 and ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, November 26, 2004 - January 9, 2005. Catalog published by Bpb - Federal Agency for Civic Education, Berlin 2004. Available online ( Memento of the original dated August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved July 1, 2008.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifa.de
personal data
SURNAME Osodi, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian photographer (press and art photography)
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagos