Akinbode Akinbiyi

Photographer and curator Akinbode Akinbiyi lives in Berlin. His photo-graphy has been exploring Lagos for nearly 20 years. In Lagos. All Roads, he continues this process of discovery for Afropolis. Akinbiyi’s approach to photographing cities has always remained the same – he walks around megacities such as Lagos, Cairo or Brasilia with a medium-format camera. Akinbode Akinbiyi has also been a mentor to some members of recent photography collectives such as DOF and Black Box. He shares with them a special interest in the informal arrangements and structures that seem to constitute cities such as Lagos.