eprintid: 10154212 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/42/12 datestamp: 2022-08-24 09:24:14 lastmod: 2022-08-24 09:24:14 status_changed: 2022-08-24 09:24:14 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 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 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154212/2/Binaisa_UCL_Binaisa_Final%20Clean%20Copy_Picturing%20women%20feminism%20power%20photographies.pdf