Niyi's Profile

• Prize
  Bronze in People/Portrait
• Photographer
  Adeboye Olaniyan

Whether in designing or photographing, my mind seeks the right elements that can accurately convey my thoughts. Most of the time, it fails in its final expression. But I have time and again considered that failure important. So Says Apsley Cherry-Garrard: “Do things slowly, always slowly…and every now and then the question, Shall we go on? and the answer Yes.” For me, this affirmative is the crux of my artistic process as I continually seek to match the vision to the expression. I know that both the artist and the artisan feel the burden of time weighing on their instrument of creation. Are we there yet? The images and designs I consider completed ask this question every time I look at them. And my reply is always this: “we might not be there yet, but from the position we stand, we are in a better place to fail better—whence beauty is born—in this never-ending process of artistic creation.”