From iPhone 5 to professional camera and from amateur snapper to celebrated photographer: Stephen Tayo’s photographs are now emblazoned in the New York Times, Vogue and Dazed. Clothes are his building blocks, Lagos is his playground – and FACES is one of his fans.
Photos: Stephen Tayo, Now Gallery, Greenwich Peninsula
Human Stories: The Satirists
Lagos is the birthplace and source of inspiration for Stephen Tayo’s work. His portfolio consists of the people who give Lagos a face and whose problems turn life in Nigeria’s largest city into a gauntlet. The exhibition “Human Stories: The Satirists” is more social criticism than urban portrait when Tayo uses plastic installations to draw attention to one of the biggest messes of our time.
Human Stories: The Satirists, NOW Gallery, Greenwich Peninsula, London, Great Britain
Stephen Tayo takes you into his world on Instagram at @stephen.tayo.
