Kadara Enyeasi

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Kadara Enyeasi is a Nigerian fine art photographer. [1] [2]

Career

Kadara started taking photographs of close family as a teenager in high school with a 2-megapixel Nikon camera. [3] [4] [5] He graduated from the University of Lagos with a major in architecture. [6] [7] [8]

His work has featured on the Lagos Photo Festival in 2015 and 2017. [9] [10] His work is featured in the Zeitz MOCAA exhibition, Still Here Tomorrow To High Five You Yesterday (2019). [1] His work was curated as part of the collection that was exhibited at the maiden Art X Lagos in 2016. [11] [12] His work has appeared on CNN, [13] Vogue [14] [15] and at Foam X African Artists’ Foundation by the Foam Fotografiemuseum. [16]

He was nominated for the Edwin George Prize for Photography at the Future Awards Africa 2017. [17] [18]

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  3. ↑ Ana Rosado. "Expert view: Seven leading African photographers from across the continent". CNN. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
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  13. ↑ Nosmot Gbadamosi. "5 designers leading Nigeria's hyperlocal fashion revolution". CNN. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  14. ↑ Borrelli-Persson, Laird. "Lagos Space Programme Designer Adeju Thompson Is Taking Genderless Fashion Into New Dimensions". Vogue. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  15. ↑ "Why City Prince/sses at the Palais de Tokyo is a must-see exhibition". Vogue Paris (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-06.
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