WORKS

4Series  ·  Photography

2023Circular Art Space / London, United Kingdom · Royal Birmingham Society of Artists / Birmingham, United Kingdom

A meditation on ancestral memory and the fragmentation of African identity in a rapidly westernized world.

EDA

EDA — 01
EDA — 02
2022Circular Art Space / London, United Kingdom · Royal Birmingham Society of Artists / Birmingham, United Kingdom

An inquiry into the body as both subject and instrument — a site where cultural memory is inscribed and erased.

Instrument & Flesh

Instrument & Flesh — 01
Instrument & Flesh — 02
2021Atirira Gallery / Lagos, Nigeria

A homecoming and a reckoning — shown in Lagos, rooted in the cultural conversations that define this practice.

Hands That Remember

Hands That Remember — 01
Hands That Remember — 02
2024

A study of adorned beauty as resistance — scarlet and ceremony reclaimed as declarations of cultural selfhood.

Ewa Pupa

Ewa Pupa — 01
Ewa Pupa — 02
Creative process — Tosin Junaid
Creative Process
01

Human Connection

Every project begins with deep immersion in the lived experiences I seek to convey — drawing from the intimacy of cultural memory and personal narrative.

02

Symbolic Language

Cowrie shells, flowers, shadow, and darkness appear not as aesthetics but as cultural declarations. Objects carry ancestral weight.

03

Light as Sacred

Light in my practice is not merely technical — it is sacred. Where it falls, what it reveals, what it withholds — each decision is intentional.

04

The Body as Archive

My subjects do not perform for the camera. They endure it. The turned back, the absent face — these are not omissions but arguments.

Get in touch

mrjunayd@gmail.com