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Description of Pictures: Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits
February 5, 2022 – February 28, 2023
Multimedia artist Iké Udé celebrates the luminescent beauty and mystique of African visionaries by turning his lens on the talented people who drive Nollywood, Nigeria’s $3 billion film industry. Known for his performative and iconoclastic style and vibrant sense of composition, Udé’s photographs use color, attire and other markers to make elegant yet unexpected portraits. His photographs make a bold statement about the power of African identities, despite centuries of attempted erasure by Eurocentric art history and notions of beauty.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NOLLY_220206_004.JPG: Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits
2. NOLLY_220206_020.JPG: Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits
3. NOLLY_220206_022.JPG: "Nollywood is the new face of Africa: It is modern, postmodern, bold, sexy, wicked, shrewd and with a contagious attitude worth catching." -- Iké Udé, 2016
4. NOLLY_220206_032.JPG: Genevieve Nnaji Actress, producer Born Amaimo, Imo State, Nigeria Over 100 movies
5. NOLLY_220206_054.JPG: A Radical Beauty
6. NOLLY_220206_067.JPG: Iké Udé
7. NOLLY_220206_070.JPG: Alexx Ekubo Actor, model Born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria Over 50 movies Kiki Omeili Actress Born in Lagos, Nigeria 47 movies O.C. Ukeje Actor, model, musician Born in Lagos, Nigeria 38 movies
8. NOLLY_220206_074.JPG: (left to right) Chioma Ude Nigerian entertainment executive Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone Tope Oshin Director, producer Born in Lagos, Nigeria 8 movies, 5 short films, 2 documentaries, 14 TV series Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen Director, screenwriter, producer Born in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria Over 200 movies
9. NOLLY_220206_086.JPG: Genevieve Nnaji's dress
10. NOLLY_220206_093.JPG: Jim Iyke Esomugha Actor, producer, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter Born in Libreville, Gabon Over 150 movies
11. NOLLY_220206_096.JPG: Chioma Ude Nigerian entertainment executive Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone
12. NOLLY_220206_099.JPG: Tope Oshin Director, producer Born in Lagos, Nigeria 8 movies, 5 short films, 2 documentaries, 14 TV series
13. NOLLY_220206_103.JPG: Beverly Naya Actress Born in London, UK 32 movies
14. NOLLY_220206_105.JPG: Taiwo Ajai-Lycett Actress, producer, director, host Born in Lagos, Nigeria 10 movies, multiple TV series
15. NOLLY_220206_108.JPG: Gideon Okeke Actor, producer, model Born in Lagos, Nigeria 7 movies, 5 TV series, multiple theater and musical performances
16. NOLLY_220206_115.JPG: Linda Ihuoma Ejiofor Actress, model Born in Lagos, Nigeria 11 movies, 4 TV series
17. NOLLY_220206_118.JPG: About Nollywood Nollywood, a term coined by New York Times journalist Norimitsu Onishi, refers to Nigeria’s prolific three-billion-dollar film industry. Created by Nigerian actors, writers, producers, and directors who wanted to tell “home-grown” stories, the industry has powerfully shaped how Nigerians and other Africans see themselves and are seen by others. Since the early 1990s, Nollywood has been a vital part of a transnational, transcontinental conversation on Black self-representation that extends from South Africa to Kenya, and as far west as Jamaica and the United States. The fact that Nollywood has its own capital in the United States (Houston) demonstrates its ever-growing global impact. Each year, Nollywood produces more than 1,500 films in English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Itsekiri, Edo, Efik, Ijaw, Urhobo, or one of the other more than 500 languages spoken in Nigeria. Ranging from stories of mythic characters to Nigerian kings and their courts, long-suffering wives, Bible-wielding pastors, business tricksters, glamorous young professionals, and émigrés stranded in New York or London, these films reflect the drama and complexity of life—and representation—in Lagos and beyond.
18. NOLLY_220206_126.JPG: The School of Nollywood 2014–16 UV ink on photographic SL Linen
19. NOLLY_220206_129.JPG: The School of Nollywood
20. NOLLY_220206_134.JPG: The School of Nollywood
21. NOLLY_220206_136.JPG: The art of portraiture is essentially a performance even when it doesn't appear as such. -- Iké Udé, 2016
22. NOLLY_220206_145.JPG: Kehinde Bankole Actress Born in Lagos, Nigeria 14 movies
23. NOLLY_220206_149.JPG: Sadiq Daba's Attire
24. NOLLY_220206_158.JPG: Julius D’Genius Agwu Actor, comedian, author Born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria Over 15 movies, multiple TV series and stage plays
25. NOLLY_220206_159.JPG: Joke Silva Actress Born in Lagos, Nigeria Over 60 movies
26. NOLLY_220206_162.JPG: Enyinna Nwigwe Actor, producer Born in Ngor Okpala, Imo State, Nigeria 47 movies
27. NOLLY_220206_166.JPG: Paul Obazele Actor, producer Born in Lagos, Nigeria Over 40 movies
28. NOLLY_220206_174.JPG: Lilian Esoro Franklin Actress Born in Imo State, Nigeria 33 movies, multiple TV appearances
29. NOLLY_220206_180.JPG: Mary Lazarus Actress, producer Born in Abia, Nigeria 50 movies
30. NOLLY_220206_196.JPG: African is Beautiful You are beautiful Nollywood is beautiful
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