Nigeria Becomes First Country To Ban Foreign Models in Advertisments
Nigeria's advertising regulator has announced a ban on using foreign models and voice-over artists in television commercials made in the country.
Photographer Uses a Smartphone To Capture Striking Insect Macro Shots
For photographer David Joseph, all it takes to capture stunning macro shots of insects and plants is his smartphone and a mobile macro lens.
Photo Project Celebrates The Importance of Water Collection in Nigeria
In a partnership with WaterAid, Nigerian photojournalist Etinosa Yvonne has released a series of diptychs that highlight the importance of collecting water in the daily lives of men based in north-eastern Nigeria communities.
This is What Happens When You Hire a Nigerian Scammer as a Photographer
Here's an unusual and inspiring 8-minute video by photographer Adam Grumbo of Matters To That One. After he was contacted online by a Nigerian scammer posing as a "hot American girl," Grumbo decided to hire the scammer as a documentary photographer.
Rare Portraits of the Nigerian Royal Court from the Mid-1900s
Noted Nigerian photographer Chief S.O. Alonge was the very first indigenous photographer of the Royal Court of Benin in Nigeria, and for some five decades, he captured thousands of Kodak glass-plate negatives of the ritual, pageantry and regalia of the Nigerian obas (kings), their wives and retainers.
Now, these rarely seen images and the fascinating world they preserved are being pulled out of the archives of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Art and shown to the world once more.