ADEMOLA AKINLABI
EDITOR
African Photojournalism Database
Lagos, Nigeria
FREELANCE Photojournalist based in Lagos Nigeria, i started with toying with plastic Camera but my contact with real camera started when a friend of my brought one to school and kept it with me, i started snapping and taking the films out of the school for processing. As a Mass Communication students, my encounter with a course "photojournalism" brought out the photographic art in me as i devoted much of time to it than any other courses.
My industrial attachment was spent at a local photography studio where i was put through the manual rigorous of BLACK WHITE, before i went for a study on Photojournalism at Nigeria Institute of Journalism. My Professional career started in 1992 with CITYNEWS, during the draconian rule of the Military, i later joined TELL MAGAZINE in 1994, after wish i team up with others to be pioneer staffs of NATIONAL MIRROR DAILY as the PHOTO EDITOR.
1994 - MULTIPLE AWARDS
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Corporate
- Editorial
- Environment
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Sports
