One of Africa’s most significant photography festivals comes to Nottingham in LagosPhoto: Stories of Movement and Belonging, a major exhibition bringing together photographers from across Africa and the diaspora.
Founded in Nigeria in 2010 by the African Artists’ Foundation, LagosPhoto has developed into an important international platform for established and emerging photographers.
The Nottingham exhibition explores movement, borders, memory, identity and belonging, asking who is free to travel, whose journeys become visible and whose stories are overlooked.
Photography becomes a way of challenging simplified narratives about migration and travel while exploring the political, social and personal forces that determine how people move through the world.
The exhibition presents African and diaspora perspectives through contemporary visual art, enabling photographers to document their own communities, experiences and interpretations of a rapidly changing world.
For Black History Month audiences, Stories of Movement and Belonging offers an opportunity to encounter African perspectives directly through the work of photographers rather than through representations created by others.
It also provides a contemporary counterpoint to historical discussions of migration, examining what movement, home and belonging mean for people today.
The exhibition extends beyond conventional ideas of Black history by demonstrating how contemporary African artists are creating, documenting and redefining cultural narratives in the present.
LagosPhoto: Stories of Movement and Belonging runs at Lakeside Arts from Saturday 19th September 2026 until Sunday 10th January 2027.
Admission is free.
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