LENSES
Maybe
we need to look behind lenses not ours, to experience in the barest, lives not
ours.
I love being in front of a camera as much
as I love being behind it. Whether it is to tell a story or to capture it,
there is pure artistic value in both endeavours.
One of the most beautiful things about a
photo is that it gives you a visual portrayal of experiences and emotions and
presence, and demands your raw subjective interpretation. I am drawn to the way
certain photographs evoke sensory impressions on the mind of its audience. How
they incept conversations without words, how they affect you.
It is almost like a feeling of walking into
a strange house and finding pieces of yourself in drawers and rooms and
mirrors. Like smelling the air and breathing in memories in whiffs of old talc
or stale tobacco or burnt Sunday stew.
I like to, in anyway I can insert a piece
of myself in my work. Maybe it is because I hope that someone, would look at
the things I have poured pieces of myself into. See through my lens, and
experience in the barest, something not theirs, yet strangely familiar.
A hi nya, with love, x E
Photography and creative directing by || Ene Ijato
Modelled by || Mustapha Bello
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