Jide Odukoya
IVDocumentary Images

The living
archive.

The work that is not commissioned. Streets, markets, people in transit — kept because they are the country I actually live in.

A market street under coloured umbrellas, shoppers moving between stalls.
Two women laughing and high-fiving between stalls of patterned fabric.

Nobody is posing.The camera is only there long enough to catch what was already happening.

A vendor's table piled with sunglasses, lenses catching the light.
A mud-covered group posing on and around a white van on a red dirt road.
Seen from above, steps stacked with plastic buckets and basins in every colour.
A market stall crowded with goods and shoppers, umbrellas overhead.

Still coming in.

Three frames are being prepared for this archive.

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The archive keeps growing.

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