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Why Art?

Photography was
something I started early in life. My sister gave me a camera on my
18th birthday and that was essentially how it all began.

Training

I went to college
in the UK before going to the university. I studied photography in one
of the best universities in media in the UK, which is the University of
Westminster. I was fortunate to have come in contact with the likes of
Joe Bulaitis, who took special interest in me and taught me a few
things in the profession which have been of great value to me and my
craft.

Medium

Photography.

Influences

There are a lot of
them. For portraiture Yousuff Karsh, who has photographed some of the
greatest people of the century. For landscape, Ansel Adams. There is
also Joe Bulaitis.

Inspirations

Little things. Anything from travelling, to just looking through the window and viewing the environment around me.

Best work so far

I don’t know. It’s subjective. For me, I think the best is yet to come. It’s all work in progress as far as I am concerned.

Least satisfying work

I don’t have any. My works are my babies.

Career high point

To have my works
honoured by visiting presidents. To have been afforded the opportunity
of taking the pictures currently displayed in the new Nigerian E-
passport.

My works are also
displayed at the international airport in Abuja. These are
accomplishments that have moved me to tears when I think about them.

Favourite artists, living or dead

Yousuff Karsh

Ambition

To leave an eternal
legacy in photography. Also, to get to the point whereby nobody ends
the day without having seen one or two of my images in the course of
the day.