After fifteen years of championing photography as a platform for exchange and critical reflection, the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) announces that LagosPhoto Festival will now adopt a biennial format, on view from October 25 – November 29, 2025.
This transition marks a new phase of growth, creating space for deeper inquiry, broader programming, and expanded impact. Under the theme “Incarceration,” the 2025 edition examines the many visible and invisible forms of confinement—whether imposed by systems or self—that continue to constrain marginalised peoples. The biennial asks how images can expose, challenge, and reimagine carceral structures.
Presented across four venues in Lagos and Ibadan, the program features solo and collaborative projects, institutional exhibitions, screenings, and talks. LagosPhoto’s debut expansion to Ibadan will foreground works engaging the city’s urban and architectural expressions of incarceration.
The rise of Jobalè, 2025. From the series les Réenchanteresses. Courtesy of the artist and AAFArnold Tagne Fokam
