Nengi Nelson
Eti Osa, Lagos, Nigeria
Nengi Nelson is a Lagos-based visual artist, whose works intersect
photography and film. She is known for her monochrome photographs
that capture the ever-so-palatable and changing Lagos landscape. Using
portraiture and documentary-style photographs her works explore
herself first then her community through themes like identity,
vulnerability and social response/acceptance. She draws inspiration from
films, everyday life and issues affecting her immediate community.
Her works have been exhibited at the Passport, Lagos Photo Festival,
(Lagos, 2019), and female, lockdown views (Virtual Exhibition, 2020),
Heinrich Bohl Stiftung, solo installation (Lagos, 2021), Women In The City
LUDI X HBS, (Lagos, 2022), End Police Brutality, Forme Femine, (Virtual
Exhibition 2022) etc.
She has been commissioned and published by the BBC, Gucci, ATLAS
Etihad, Reuters, Thomson Reuters Foundation, WhatsApp, Centre for
Cooperative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ), African Women Board, etc
- Arts
- Audio capture
- Conflict
- Corporate
- Environment
- Events
- Portrait
