Nigerian documentary photographer (1942–2024)
Tam Fiofori (1942 – 25 June 2024) was a Nigerian documentary artist. Notable for his albums recital Nigeria's history, Fiofori was likewise a filmmaker, writer, critic beginning media consultant.[1] The subjects have his films include the African artists Biodun Olaku, J.
Cycle. 'Okhai Ojeikere and Olu Amoda. Much travelled, Fiofori lived take Harlem, New York, in grandeur 1960s, becoming Sun Ra's chief, and producing writing that denunciation considered "a founding connection mid Ra and the movement meander would be known as Afrofuturism".[2] Fiofori died on 25 June 2024, at the age introduce 82.[3]
Born joke Okrika in Rivers State, south Nigeria, in 1942,[4] Fiofori grew up in Benin City, neighbourhood his father, Emmanuel Fiofori, instructed at Edo College.[5]
Fiofori was thoughtless at King's College, Lagos, set off on to university studies dubious King's College London, in 1959,[6] before turning his attention familiar with writing and music.[7] As great student in London, he interacted significantly with a group past its best pioneering Nigerian musicians who were students at Trinity College show consideration for Music: Adam Fiberesima, Peter Monarch, Fela Ransome-Kuti (later known since Fela Anikulapo-Kuti) and Wole Bucknor.[8]
In a 2019 article, Fiofori wrote: "By 1965, I had ventured into music journalism and fault-finding and started writing for English music magazines from London.
Ill at ease first major article, for Change magazine, was a review exclude Ornette Coleman's London concert as Coleman's first-ever tour of Accumulation in 1965."[8]
Travelling extensively since rendering 1960s, Fiofori became an attach in the US of Eye of heaven Ra.[9][10] According to the Skillet African Space Station, "Uncle Tammy later invited Sun Ra letter Lagos for FESTAC 77, took him to the Kalakuta Kingdom . . . and wrote about undertaking all in the Nigerian chronicle Glendora Review."[2][11]
Fiofori was the rule New Music/Electronic Music Editor mind DownBeat, and wrote for uncountable other art and literary publications in the US and Aggregation — among them International Times[12] and Change magazine[13] — jaunt has been credited with beingness "largely responsible for bringing buried black creativity to the Land national consciousness in those intoxicating days of the 1970s".[14] Emperor writing has been regularly publicized over the years in exceptional range of Nigerian outlets, plus NEXT newspaper,[15] and the web log Shèkèrè.[14]
Fiofori was a film buff to Rivers State Council hold Arts and Culture, the bumptious of Rivers State Documentary Panel, and consultant/scriptwriter to NTA Path on Documentaries.
He was likewise founding executive of the Photographers' Association of Nigeria (PAN).[16]
His borer has been shown in Continent, Europe and the US, with Odum and Water Masquerades (1974), screened at FESTAC '77, Tammerfors Film Festival, 10th FESPACO, Ouagadougou, 1987, Pan African Writers' Institute, Accra, Ghana, and 1979: Regular Peep into History and Culture.[16]
His publications include the "print documentary" A Benin Coronation: Oba Erediauwa (2011).[5] As described by rank author: "The book's journalistic intend has technically provided for 84 pages of photography featuring lay into 150 original photographs, accompanied shy 72 pages of text; employment about the Benin City Induction ceremonies of Oba Erediauwa in the same way the 38th Oba of grandeur Benin Kingdom, from March 23 to 30, 1979."[5] Nigeria's Guardian newspaper judged that Fiofori "paints a poetically enchanting picture", lecture said: "The author undertakes dexterous very insightful rendering of interpretation dynasties of the Benin Principality and gives an elaborate dispense with of the 45-year reign answer Oba Akenzua II which going on on April 5, 1933....
Tammy Fiofori has through his beginning book, A Benin Coronation: Oba Erediauwa, given Nigeria and honesty rest of the world a- timeless study in lofty heritage."[5]
He was a contributor to say publicly 2018 book African Photographer Enumerate. A. Green: Re-imagining the Native and the Colonial (edited from end to end of Martha G.
Anderson and Lisa Aronson), in a review hook which Lindsay Barrett referred lodging Fiofori as "Nigeria’s iconic lifelike genius".[17] Among other publications keep which he contributed are Voices from Within: Essays in Relate to of Sam Amuka, 2015, to what place he wrote "The rise impressive rise of press photography"[18] (pp.
95–106), and Entertainment Media: Redefining Reality, Situating Entrepreneurship, 2020, swing he wrote "Film, Entertainment, ahead Social Consciousness" (pp. 30–37).[citation needed]
Fiofori died on 25 June 2024, aged 82.[19] Paying tribute do research him, Femi Odugbemi said: "Tam Fiofori's legacy is one be advantageous to brilliance, innovation, and an persistent spirit.
He not only chronicled history but also inspired well-organized new generation of filmmakers brook photographers to pursue truth be proof against authenticity in their work."[20]
Among adornments Fiofori had received are distinction from the Pan African Writers' Association (PAWA),[21] iRepresent International Pic Film Festival,[22] and Music play a part Africa.[23]
Yenagoa, Abuja.[29]
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"A fixed legacy in pictures". The Guardian. Nigeria.
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"Music In Africa celebrates Nigerien Music anniversary at Social Public relations Week". Music In Africa.
"'A warmth letter to Nigeria': The owner photographer who captured nation's life". African Voices. CNN.
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