A Nigerian Photographer's Portraits Of The Mind [NPR]

Carey Sipp 7/29/181:07 PM

Etinosa Yvonne Osayimwen's goal is to get inside her subjects' heads.

The self-trained, 28-year-old documentary photographer does just that by using a double-exposure technique. She takes portraits of Nigerian survivors of violence and terrorism — then superimposes it with an image of something that reminds them of how their lives have changed.

In one photo, for example, a construction plan is layered over the profile of a building engineer whose community was attacked by Boko Haram. Another image shows a woman's profile covered in another photo of the same woman on crutches after she was shot in the leg.

To read the rest of this story by Diane Cole, and to see photos by Etinosa Yvonne Osayimwen's, please click here.

http://www.nprillinois.org/pos...traits-mind#stream/0

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