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Contemporary works at Alexis

Contemporary works at Alexis - The Nation Newspaper In an ongoing exhibition at Alexis in Lagos, simply titled the contemporaries, eleven contemporary artists showcase contemporary works that...

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NIGERIA ART MARKET REPORT 2017 Finally, the NIGERIA ART MARKET REPORT for the year 2017 is out. You can download it HERE. In this report, I analyse data from nine auctions whose main focus was contemporary African art and that i…



J. A. GREEN NIGERIA’S FIRST INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHER

FINALLY IN THE LIMELIGHT

Jonathan Adagogo Green (J. A. Green) now recognized as Nigeria’s first

indigenous professional photographer, was born in Bonny (now in Rivers State,

Nigeria) in 1873.

He studied photography in Sierre Leonne and then established a studio in Bonny

and became one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers

to be active in West Africa.

Green whose identity remained hidden behind his English surname maintained a

photography business in Bonny and worked mostly in the Niger Delta and its

environs. His work covered a wide range of themes including portraiture of the

British colonial officials, European merchants and, prominent chiefs and elites and

their families, particularly in Bonny, Kalabari, Opobo and Okrika.

He also photographed scenes of daily and ritual life including women making

handicrafts, iron workers and weddings; as well as commerce and buildings; both

administrative and religious.

Some of his great iconic photographs; such as that of Oba Ovonramwen in 1897,

the British hulk and war canoes were published in prestigious newspapers and

magazines like the London Illustrated News and other European publications.



And although his photographs were published in England and Europe to much

acclaim, Green himself remained anonymous for more than a century and

according to Anderson and Aronson, he was ‘an African photographer hiding in

plain sight’.

Thankfully, Jonathan Adagogo Green has finally and firmly come into much-

deserved limelight with the publication of the book AFRICAN

PHOTOGRAPHER J. A. GREEN (Reimagining the Indigenous and the

Colonial) by the Indiana University Press U.S.A. in 2017.

The editors of this book on Green; Professors Martha G. Anderson and Lisa

Aronson and the contributors, Emeritus Professor E.J. Alagoa, Tam Fiofori and

Christraud M. Geary, have in this book uncovered 350 of Green’s images in

archives (in Britain and the U.S.A.) publications and even private albums in

Nigeria and abroad that celebrate the indigenous and the colonial during Green’s

career as a professional photographer.

This landmark book unifies these dispersed photographic images of Jonathan

Adagogo Green and presents a history of the photographer and the area and times

in which he worked.

AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHER J.A. GREEN (Reimagining the Indigenous

and the Colonial) will be publicly presented and launched on Thursday 1

st

March,

2018 at 11am, at the Royal Banquet Hall, Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt, Rivers

State at a ceremony organized by Onyoma Research.

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