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creators_name: Binaisa, Naluwembe
title: Picturing Women: Identity, Power, and Photographies in Urban Nigeria
ispublished: pub
divisions: C03
divisions: F22
divisions: B03
divisions: UCL
keywords: Nigeria, photography, women, citizenship, identity, Lagos
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abstract: In urban Nigeria, the profile of photography as an art form is on the rise and the work of female artists is coming to global attention. This article argues for a more nuanced analysis that reflects on image objects that ‘speak back’ to issues of inequality and challenge center/periphery sightlines that remain salient within a transnational, interconnected ecosystem. ‘Picturing women’ alludes to the active intersection of the feminine as framed identity within a context of unequal power relations at the global and local level. Through the prism of three key pieces from artists Ndidi Dike, Adeola Olagunju, and Jumoke Sanwo, based in Lagos, Nigeria, I trace the use of lens-based media within their respective practice. What emerges is the relevance of enduring ways of seeing and being from a local ethnographic context that challenge the powerlessness discourse that so often frames visions of Africa. The concept of ‘impaired citizenship’ from the work of theorist Ariella Azoulay provides a helpful provocation to think about the particularities of place that photography unsettles to propose connectivity beyond borders. In conclusion, the article calls for more critical engagement with discursive questions of difference to counter persistent opacities and silences.
date: 2020
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2020.1809937
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1972593
doi: 10.1080/17514517.2020.1809937
lyricists_name: Pinney, Christopher
lyricists_name: Binaisa, Irene
lyricists_id: CPINN72
lyricists_id: INBIN63
actors_name: Binaisa, Irene
actors_id: INBIN63
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Photography and Culture
volume: 13
number: 3-4
pagerange: 267-278
issn: 1751-4517
citation:        Binaisa, Naluwembe;      (2020)    Picturing Women: Identity, Power, and Photographies in Urban Nigeria.                   Photography and Culture , 13  (3-4)   pp. 267-278.    10.1080/17514517.2020.1809937 <https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2020.1809937>.       Green open access   
 
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