MEDINA DUGGER
Art Twenty One, Nigeria
Dugger is an art photographer originally from California, and based in Lagos since 2011. Having studied at Spe´os Photographic Institute in Paris, she entered the industry as a coordinator and co-curator for the African Artists’ Foundation and LagosPhoto Festival. Dugger has now turned her attention to photography. Through the use of layered images and a collage technique, she aims to bypass the singular storylines common to Nigeria and Africa. Instead her works — immediately arresting for their dynamism and colour — focus on complex themes, both contemporary and timeless, such as ethnocentrism, cultural homogenisation, globalisation, identity, tradition, modernity, imagination, the female form and style. art21lagos.com