With 35 years in Photography, Olusegun Fayemi, the Director of Pathology, Hoboken University Medical Centre, New Jersey, has gone a long way in the targeting and snapping images of interest.

And since an artist’s background determines the course of his or her life to a great extent, Fayemi, a Nigerian photographer is not just passionate about his country but about Africa as a whole.
The artist, who has produced documentary photography of Sub-Saharan Africa for the past three decades is so interested in Africa that, he has also published three books on the same subject including, Balancing Acts: Photography From West Africa (1992), Voices From Within: Photographs of African Children (1999), and Windows To The Soul: Photographs Celebrating African Women (2003).

Currently, the renowned artist is showcasing his photographs and digital photo paintings at Quintessence, Falomo in Lagos.
The on-going solo exhibition with the theme, Eloquent Narratives is a celebration of the rhythm of the daily lives of Africans.

According to the artist, the realities of contemporary Africa and Africans cut across "respondent attire of African women in Djenne (Mali) market to the teeming thousands of people at Oshodi market; from the somber atmosphere of the subterranean churches in Lalibela (Ethiopia) to women dressed in brilliantly coloured Aso Ebi dancing to popular praise-songs in an Anglican Church in Abeokuta."

The exhibition also has faces of children playing with homemade toys in crowded classrooms across the continent. It showcases how people pound yam in Accra, Ghana "to grinding grain" in Ougadougou (Burkina Faso); from street minstrels and itinerant musicians in Ado Ekiti to street and open air dancing parties in Dakar (Senegal).

The images are quite revealing. While many of them have universal themes, others are distinctively African, narrating how Africans live and the nuances that shape their lives.
These images go beyond mere documentary. They are imbued with energy, vigour and vibrancy through digital process.

This process allows the artist to manipulate colours and devise special techniques that elevate the images to magnificent level of beauty. While some have elements of mystery, some are visual poetry and the rest are just dynamic.

Fayemi, who has participated in several solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally hopes to focus on documenting photography of the sub-Saharan, the Carribean and the USA.