Nigeria : Photos

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A dust cloud envelops Lagos. At 4 in the evening, the sun can hardly be seen.

Inspired by the framings from Gregory Colbert [ www.ashesandsnow.org/en/portfolio/ ]

... yeah yeah yeah, I know I know ... I can still attempt his framing styles :p~

Acting students rehearsing

Everywhere is construction, but almost nowhere do you see work being done, just endless concrete shells with makeshift, rickety wooden scaffolding. I've been told most of these projects run out of money before they can be completed.

The NYFA teachers headed to the campus. We look so American!

My producing students!

People are walking everywhere, even along the major highways, selling every imaginable commodity, waiting for transportation, or just walking.

Editing students

This close to the equator, there is almost no dusk - the sun just disappears.

Michael Sandoval with his filmmaking class

The green taxis and mini-buses that pack the streets, always dangerously overflowing with passengers.

This is a modestly packed truck - every day I see trucks piled much higher than this with crazy loads, and even crazier passengers riding on top of them.

At left, one of Nollywood's most famous actors, whose name I didn't catch... In the middle, my student Donald, who organized this visit to the set, and at right, my fellow producing teacher, Ross Novie.

The pool at the Abuja Sheraton hotel.

Vendors line the highways, standing in the choking dust and blazing sun all day, selling everything from water to tires.

A house in the most upscale neighborhood of Abuja

Ahmet on the bus after a long hot day

A roadside stand

My fellow producing teacher Ross Novie waiting for bus to head back to the hotel.

Another of the ubiquitous roadside stands

BSD with a few of our friendly escorts

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