David Uzochukwu’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

David Ejikeme Uzochukwu (born 10 December 1998) is an Austrian-Nigerian artwork photographer with a concentrate on portrait images who lives and works in Brussels and Berlin.

Youth and schooling

Born David Ejikeme Uzochukwu in Innsbruck, Austria, to an Austrian mom and a Nigerian father. He was raised in Innsbruck, earlier than shifting to Luxembourg and Brussels. He has since lived in Vienna and Berlin the place he research in the direction of a Bachelor of Nice Arts in philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Work

Uzochukwu began with self-portraiture and developed to photographing portraits in nature. His images combines post-production and intimate portraiture, regularly imparting pictures with an aura of isolation hanging over his physique in bodily manifestations of smoke, clouds, water, and hearth. His surreal pictures current, for instance, blue skies that turn into partitions, crystals that float in mid-air, volcanic sand that turns into a comforting shroud, or blood that turns right into a masks.

His work has typically channeled his observations on race and queerness. At Unseen Amsterdam, for example, he premiered a collection of images which used the picture of humanoid water creatures, geared up with fins, tails, or sharp tooth. In 2019, Uzochukwu was quoted saying that these works specific ‘what it means to be dubbed ‘black,” to have an oppressive notion of race imposed upon, and to thrive nonetheless.’

His newest challenge is a celebration of Nigerian creatives. Every portrait focuses on the ‘disruptive power’ these artists use to push boundaries and make issues occur.

His work is impressed by artists akin to American photographer Gregory Crewdson and Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu, whose works assemble private universes that conflate gender, race, artwork historical past, and private identification.

In 2016, his collection A Acquainted Spoil was proven at BOZAR Middle for Nice Arts as a part of the group present Dey Your Lane!, curated by Nigerian Azu Nwagbogu.

Exhibitions (choice)

• FOM Foto Maastricht, 6211-kunskwartier, Maastricht, August 2014

• Flickr Friday: A Dwelling Room, iGNANT, Berlin, January 2014; co-organised with Incredible Frank

• Flickr, 20 Beneath 20, curated by Vogue picture director Ivan Shaw, Milk Studios, New York, NY, October 2014

• The EyeEm World Tour 2015, traveled to Alte Teppichfabrik, September 12–13, 2014; NUMA, Paris, November 13–15, 2014; EyeEm Studio San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, November 14, 2014; Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, November 29–30, 2014; Artwork Basel Miami, The Lab Miami, Miami, FL, December 1–7, 2014; Tokyo Institute of Images, Tokyo, December 3–21, 2014; Haus der Universität, Düsseldorf, January 30, 2015, as a part of Düsseldorf Photograph Weekend; Soho Home Toronto, Toronto, February 25, 2015; Openhouse Gallery, New York, NY, March 26, 2015

• Unlocked, curated by Vassilis Zidianakis, ATOPOS Modern Visible Tradition, Athens, February 24–April 22, 2016

• Africa Salon – mo(ve)ments: African Digital Subjectivities, Yale College of Artwork, New Haven, CT, March 29–31, 2016

• Whispering Stills, By no means Aside, Montréal, April 16–July 9, 2016

• Dey Your Lane !, curated by Azu Nwagbogu, BOZAR Middle for Modern Artwork, Brussels, June 17–September 16, 2016

• Lagos Photograph Pageant, Inherent Threat; Rituals and Efficiency, curated by Azu Nwagbogu, Eko Resort & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, October 22–November 21, 2016

• twenty seventh Pageant of African, Asian and Latin American Movie Cinema, The place Future Beats, curated by Azu Nwagbogu and Maria Pia Bernardoni, Casello Ovest di Porta Venezia, Milano, March 19–26, 2017; co-organised by Lagos Photograph Pageant, Lagos

• Portraits, Photograph Brussels Pageant 02, Hangar, Photograph Artwork Middle, Brussels, November 17, 2017–January 19, 2018

• Songe du Présent, MuPHo Musée de la photographie de Saint Louis, St Louis, Sénégal, Might 3–25, 2018; organised on the event of Dak’artwork Biennale 2018

• Innate: Future Blooms (Djeneba Aduayom), La Villa Rouge, Dakar, Might 3–25, 2018; as a part of the exhibition Bridge curated by MuPHo Musée de La Photographie de St Louis, on the event of Dak’artwork Biennale 2018

• Clear, Kalonoma Pageant, Munich, Might 5, 2018

• When Ethics meets Aesthetics, Vogue Italia initiative, Leica Gallery Milano, Milan, June 4–20, 2018

• Liquid Thunder, An Immersive Soundscape Expertise With David Uzochukwu, MONOM, Berlin, October 13, 2019; (solo exhibition with sound set up by William Russell)

• PhotoVogue Pageant 2018, Embracing Variety, curated by Alessia Glaviano and Francesca Marani, BASE Milano, November 14–17, 2019

• Unseen Amsterdam, September 20–22, 2019; represented by Gallery Quantity 8, Brussels

• PhotoVogue Pageant 2019, A Glitch In The System, curated by Alessia Glaviano and Francesca Marani, BASE Milano, November 14–17, 2018

Profession

Uzochukwu started taking photos at an early age. Already competent utilizing his mom’s point-and-shoot digicam at age 10, he began sharing his images extra extensively on the age of 13. At 16, Uzochukwu went skilled and signed with Iconoclast Picture and Gallery 8. At 17, FKA Twigs handpicked Uzochukwu to shoot a big marketing campaign for Nike in Mexico.

Uzochukwu has created campaigns for purchasers like Adobe Photoshop, The Paris Opera (Opéra Nationwide de Paris), Dior, Nike, Iris van Herpen, and World Wildlife Fund, and labored with artists akin to FKA twigs, Ibeyi, Benjamin Clementine, Labrinth, Little Dragon, and Pharell Williams.

Recognition

In 2014, he was named EyeEm Photographer of the 12 months, in addition to one in all Flickr’s inaugural 20under20. In 2015, he was among the many few chosen for Adobe Photoshop’s 25 Beneath 25 and acquired the Canon x Exhibitr Pupil Images Award. In 2019, he was chosen for the CPH:LAB 2019/2020, the expertise improvement program of CPH:DOX Copenhagen Worldwide Documentary Pageant.