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Exhibition

LagosPhoto: Stories of Movement and Belonging

Sat 19 Sep 2026 – Sun 10 Jan 2027

Djanogly Gallery

Free

Opening times

Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm

Sunday, 12noon-4pm


Free launch event: Friday 18 September, 6-8pm

This thought-provoking exhibition brings together artists from across the African continent and the diaspora, alongside a selection of international practitioners, who are part of the LagosPhoto Festival network. Their works explore ideas of borders, memory, belonging, and the unseen forces shaping human movement.

LagosPhoto Festival is one of Africa’s most significant international contemporary arts festivals. Founded by the African Artists’ Foundation in 2010, this month-long event biennially celebrates both emerging and established photographers through photography installations, large-scale outdoor prints, exhibitions, workshops and talks.

Through diverse photographic practices, the featured works question who can move freely, whose stories gain visibility, and how photography might resist reductive narratives. Like the Festival, this exhibition will not be contained to the Djanogly Gallery. Visitors are encouraged to discover outdoors works around Lakeside and across University Park campus.

Presented in collaboration with the Sustainable Travel and Tourism Advanced Research Centre (STTAR Centre) the exhibition invites audiences to rethink travel and tourism in the light of socio-cultural, economic, environmental and political inequalities in access and representation.

Top image and first two images below: Arsène Mpiana, from the Passport series, 2019-2024. Courtesy of the artist and African Artists’ Foundation.
Second two images below: Installation pictures from the LagosPhoto Festival.

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