“Lagos”

Wild Walk four, the last one

Lagos -  Two new photographers joined us today. Andrew and Adolphus. We went out with the seven of us to the Bus station. The place where the area boys, the unofficial owners of the area, rule. It is the last Wild Walk (observe without an agenda to have the news reveal itself to you). From tomorrow on we will work on one of the patterns we have found (see the tag cloud)
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Wild Walk #1

Lagos -  The photographer is Tuoyo, picturing a mobile businessman. The business man on the left is Toye Gbade. Tuoyo works as a free lance photojournalist. Toye works in a publishing company…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Website design

Lagos -  The web designer chose a nice empty wall to advertise his craft.…
Eremina Jumbo – Lagos Lab

Water business

Lagos -  Residents of Obalende lagos, fetching water. Even Lagos is a city surrounded by the sea and Lagos it homes of the millions of lagosians lacks portable water. As such…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Waiting game

Lagos -  Frustrated travelers standing in wait for their vehicles to get to where they are due to severe hold up along the major link route (at Ore , Lagos-Benin route) connecting the…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

Tones of goods

Lagos -  Cart pusher moving tones of goods from the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transitional trading. This has made it a hub for many new comers in Lagos…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

The Quiet

Lagos -  This community is where Okada men (commercial bike riders), water sellers and all come to cool off at night after a hard days work. There’s a lot of noise here…
Toye Gbade – Lagos Lab

The first P.A.P.A. exhibition

Lagos -  Ten big prints on bamboo structures. About hundred pictures put together as a collage illustrating the patterns in the news we have found and two posters with drawn mindmaps made…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

War against green lagos

Lagos -  A green flower plant struggling to survive in a mechanic workshop…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

University Aspirations

Lagos -  Iduma Chibueze, a wrist watch seller at the Sabo arrived Lagos in January, 2010 with savings made from Ebonyi eastern Nigeria to start his business. He came with the aspiration…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

To satisfy God

Lagos -  This old man is rolling on the afternoon-beach-sand in a bid to appease his god. Some faithfuls believe that environments such as the beach-side or the mountain top are places…
Toye Gbade – Lagos Lab

The Promise of Hope

Lagos -  The story of our daily survival is an interesting one. Its Sallah Day celebration tomorrow, this marks the end of the several days of fasting by the muslim faithfuls. There’s…
Toye Gbade – Lagos Lab

The bullion van

Lagos -  A bullion van just enters into the frame of this image of Cathedral Church in Marina Lagos. This armoured van is a potent sign of authority an ‘Hidden Forces’ such…
Adolphus Opara – Lagos Lab

Walking manicurist

Lagos -  You can receive the service in the street or invite the craftsman into your home. ‘Northern Nigerians doing pedicures and manicures for the public without knowing the danger of distributing…
Israel Ophori – Lagos Lab

Trading time and place.

Lagos -  A sea of street hawkers and vehicles, every hawker trying to sell their goods ranging from books to toys etc. Sometimes people leave their homes with money in anticipation of…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

This house is not for sale.

Lagos -  You can read this on several houses in our street. It tells the story of a deceased person with many children who cannot agree on the legacy. To prefend one…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

The notice board.

Lagos -  The notice has been placed on a power pole. In the advert a person is looking for a cleaner, a salesgirl. The first test is it to read the notice…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

The Barbers

Lagos -  A barbers at the Iddo Terminus. Barbing is a job common among newcomers to the city. With little investment and less skill the business goes on.…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Waiting wheelbarrow

Lagos -  Waiting wheelbarrow use for moving things for money at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made it a hub for many new comers…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Tooth ache

Lagos -  A mobile medicine stand from eastern Nigeria at Onikan area of Lagos. Walking along this path with my tooth ache , he invited me to take alot at his stuff with…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

This car is for sale.

Lagos -  It is the tradition here to place a keg (a small barrel of about 30 gallons) on a vehicle to show that it is for sale. Such a keg would…
Toye Gbade – Lagos Lab

The flower man

Lagos -  Some plants and a notice on a piece of plywood. This way you can open up several shops and businesses at the same time. …
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Survival is the game

Lagos -  A young migrant from Kano, nothern Nigeria relaxing at Obalende after a long and hard day pushing people goods with wheel barrow for money. Barely able to speak the Nigeria…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa