Adire Lagos, in frames

· Sniper Ajix

Indigo, drums and dress: a photo essay from the Adire Lagos Experience.

Some events are covered. Others are witnessed. The Adire Lagos Experience, a cultural exhibition of indigo-dyed cloth, the people who make it and the people who wear it, asked for the second.

Across three days we photographed drummers at the door, traders at their tables, and guests who had clearly dressed for the occasion. The brief we set ourselves was to cover it from first arrival to final frame: the headline moments and the candid ones in between.

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