Our teacher
Mr Jones, showed us some images in class a few weeks back that have stuck in my brain. I cant get them out and wanted to know more about this "
Nollywood" phenomenon. Nollywood is a booming Nigerian film industry. It is an industry with billions in revenue. I hope that their country is able to do some positive things with all of that money circulating. Here is a great article from
American Photo on some images that are the result of this unique culture. Makes for some really interesting shots!
Pieter Hugo captures the fiction and reality of Nigeria's film industry.
By Lori Fredrickson Posted October 27, 2009
On first look at some of the images in Pieter Hugo's new book, Nollywood (Prestel, October 2009; $50), you might think that this is a documentary of civil conflict: scarred soldiers in mud-covered uniform, or children sitting in rubble-filled fields. It's only when you flip to a portrait of a vampire, with red eyes and fangs, or a zombie sipping Coca Cola, that you realize you're being tricked. And these images are meant to trick you, but they're also only halfway between reality and fiction. Nigeria's 'Nollywood', despite its low budgets and straight-to-DVD production, is one of the highest production film industries in the world. Its themes, like the images in this book, are often upernatural and melodramatic, with vampires, militants, and undead children. But though these images star Nigerian actors costumed with help from Nollywood makeup artist Gabazzini Zuo, they aren't photodocumentary--they're constructed filmic tableaux. Accompanied by essays by Chris Abani, Stacy Hardy, and Zina Saro-Wiwa (daughter of famed activist Ken Saro-Wiwa), Nollywood aims to unsettle viewers with their own preconceptions, and look deeper into a complex society often stereotyped in Western media.....
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