WORKS
4Series · Photography
A meditation on ancestral memory and the fragmentation of African identity in a rapidly westernized world.
EDA


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


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


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



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