Portrait by Nengi Nelson
I am Amanda Iheme (pronounced E-HAY-MAY), an Igbo-Nigerian architecture photographer living and working in Lagos, Nigeria.
I create photographs that emphasize and celebrate the design, history, culture and engineering of built structures, spaces and landscapes. Through my work, I seek to document and preserve a place’s architectural history and story, evoke feelings of nostalgia and share visually appealing images.
I am currently working on the following projects:
artists in their studio - documenting 30 Nigerian artists in their studio
Ugwu - 001 - proposing a new residential architectural design for the working class and low-middle class of South-Western Nigeria
Twenty-six Filling Stations (a nod to Edward Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations) - photographing 26 filling stations in Lagos, Nigeria
Gates - documenting fading gate designs in Lagos, Nigeria
The Architectural History of Ibadan - documenting the history of Ibadan, Oyo, through its architecture
Group Exhibitions and Fairs
2024, +234 Art Fair; The Government Houses
2023, Museum of Modern Art - New Photography 2023; The Way of Life
2020, SMO Contemporary - Dis Lagos Life; The Way of Life
2019, ArtX Lagos Curated Projects - This is Lagos; The Government Houses
2018, Lagos Photo Festival - Time Has Gone; The Way of Life
2018, Tiwan Tiwa; Casa De Fernandez from The Way of Life
Publications
The Irin Journal - The Lagos Issue, October 2019
The World of Interiors, April 2022
“A Landscape of Organized Chaos: Nigerian Photographers at MoMA”; The New York Times, May 2023
“On My Mind with Oluremi Onabanjo”; FOAM Magazine #64, 2023
“Interview with Amanda Iheme”; art. by Society for Art Collection; Issue 1, 2023