Open Studio: Lagos Studio Archives
Event Introduction
Open Studio: Lagos Studio Archives
Lagos Studio Archives would like to invite you to their studio where they will be presenting images from their archive and talking about the motivations behind their ongoing project.
Lagos Studio Archives is an artistic research and cultural preservation project by Helsinki based artists Karl Ohiri and Riikka Kassinen. The archive consists of thousands of film negatives documenting studio portraiture and vernacular photography made in Lagos, Nigeria, from the 1970s to post millenium. The working group’s mission is to collect, preserve and present the rich visual history from Africa’s most populous city giving visibility to practices and at risk archives that have come under threat in recent decades due to a shift from analogue to digital photography and contested city space.
Join us for an evening of discussions, photography, Nigerian music and light refreshments! The project is funded by Kone Foundation.
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Event Information
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Time:
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17:00–20:00
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Organiser:
Lagos Studio Archives
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Address:
Kaapelitehdas B-rappu, 4. Kerros
Tallberginkatu 1 B
00180 Helsinki -
Accessibility:
The event is accessible with a wheelchair.
The event has an accessible toilet.
The lift in staircase B in the Cable Factory’s inner courtyard will bring you directly to the studio on the 4th floor. The same lift will also bring you to the accessible toilet, which is located on the first floor.
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Event language:
Finnish, English
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Tickets:
The event is free of charge
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