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Cristina de MiddelLagos, NigeriaLagosphoto Festival 25 Oct - 26 Nov 2014Created in 2010, Lagos Photo is Nigeria’s first and only international photography festival. During the festival large-scale activities are staged throughout the city, with the aim of taking over public spaces and encouraging citizen participation. The theme is related to Africa’s multifaceted histories. Lagos Photo sets out to establish a community of contemporary photography that brings together both local and international artists to work with images that sum up individual experiences and identities of the whole of Africa by exploring historical and contemporary issues.The Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel took part in Lagos Photo 2014 with a project entitled The Afronauts that explored the failedplans to establish a space programme in Zambia in 1950, with fictitious and imaginative artistic actions. This project, which had been shown internationally throughout the year, was being exhibited in Africa for the first time at Lagos. Cristina de Middel attended the festival in 2013 and took part in a public programme, including an artist’s collaboration, a round table and an interactive workshop. She also began working on a new photographic project based on the book My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, written by the Nigerian author Amos Tutola in 1954. In this project Middel interacted with the local community and the emerging photographersof Makoko as well as with the community of fishermen in Lagos.Visual artsLAGOS PHOTO FESTIVAL 201486Results ’14