Vanessa Endeley
Artist biography
Vanessa Endeley
Abuja, Nigeria
Vanessa is a self-taught visual artist, fine art and documentary photographer born and raised in the city of Lagos. Fine Art Photography is the medium through which she expresses herself, bringing her portraits to life using a lot of colour. She is focused on addressing the social injustices faced by Nigerian women, education, health and insecurity in the north eastern region of Nigeria. Her on-going project, ‘Working Women’, aims to document sex workers and the trials they go through as a result of their profession, humanising these women and portraying them as being just as valid a human being as the next person.
These three images are part of a series titled 'We, Ourselves & Us' - 'The eyes are windows to the soul but what happens when you're unable to see the eyes of a person? Will you still be able to see a glimpse of their soul? Will you have any idea on their stories and form perceptions of the type of person they are? Does every answer lie within the eyes?'
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