Delta Nigeria: The Rape of Paradise - Hardcover

Osodi, George

 
9781904563853: Delta Nigeria: The Rape of Paradise

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Soon after oil was discovered in Nigeria in the 1950s, a powerful international oil industry developed. These dramatic images document for the first time the extent of the environmental damage in Nigeria. George Osodi is a Nigerian photographer from Lagos. His photographs are published in magazines and newspapers around the world. He was chosen to be part of the prestigious Documenta art fair in 2007.

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Born in Nigeria in 1971, George Osodi continues to live and work in Lagos. He studied Business Administration at the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos. Osodi was awarded first prize at the Fuji Africa Photojournalist of the Year Award in 2004 and was shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Award in 2009. He has exhibited at Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA (2015); The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (2012); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2010); National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (2009); and documenta 12, Kassel, Germany (2007), and most recently at the A World in Common - Contemporary African Photography exhibition at Tate Modern (2023).

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