MATT GILLESPIE | PHOTOGRAPHY: Lagos - Nigeria June 2012

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Lagos - Nigeria June 2012

More Lagos images to come over next few weeks! Having an excellent time meeting loads of cool Nigerians, very interesting place.

1 comment:

Bandele Zuberi said...: Love these images! Nice work Matt!; 13 June 2012 at 15:34

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quotes to remember

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” Elliott Erwitt
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” Paul Strand quotes (American Photographer, 1890-1976)
My photographs don’t go below the surface. They don’t go below anything. They’re readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I’ve lost what’s really there…been seduced by someone else’s standard of beauty or by the sitter’s own idea of the best in him. That’s not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest. - Richard Avedon - 1980