
E pele o[hello
people]
.- oto ojo meta
[it’s been a while].
- gbogbo ile
nko o?[how is your family?]
- Se ise nlo
dede? [I hope work is going well?]
I have been
off for a while; I have missed blogging and all the wonderful people on SC.
Above is how
we greet where I come from, especially when it’s been a while like this-I have
interpreted it accordingly.
This series
of images LATI9JA [from Nigeria] was birth from a very humorous incident.
A week
before I made these images, I was arrested by the police and detained for
taking photos-you don’t want to know it’s some clumsy and neverheardbefore
offence that I was charged with-TAKING PHOTOS ON THE STREET AT NIGHT. Afterwards
my camera alone was held in custody for about 24hours. I had actually travelled
to visit my parents ,so for the rest of the days I spent with them, my mother
grounded me[lol] and appealed to me not go about with my camera,ok.I tried so hard to hold myself
but on the 3rd day I just had to shoot something, so I came up with
this idea to do some self portraits, I didn’t have any tripods or remote
controls…..well the rest is some tale that is rather too funny to describe, I got
stones ,sticks on the floor, whatever I could find to hold my camera…and there you
have it my self-portraits-without my face[intentional].
further as I
looked at the image I thought it looked like some fashion advert, so I decided
to come up with a name and … and…and…start a fashion line by the name LATI9JA, for
starters we’ll stock other designers and in about a year we’ll begin to produce
our own pants which will be sold under the label LATI9JA.The store is going to
be in Lagos, Nigeria. I find this whole thing really interesting.
| Samuel roots | 5 Aug 2008, 00:45 |