In August and September, Nigerian photographer Stephen Tayo will be staying at the BijlmAIR studio in Heesterveld at the invitation of the Amsterdam Buro Stedelijk.
Tayo is a self-taught fashion, art and cultural photographer who uses his work as a platform for social commentary on wealth, class, race, gender and identity. The artist occupies his surroundings as his photo studio, a method he will also use in the Bijlmer.
BijlmAIR (Bijlmer Artist-in-Residence) is the residency program of CBK Zuidoost in collaboration with The Department of Painting and Sculpture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi (Ghana) and Buro Stedelijk, the project space of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Last year, Tayo participated in an exhibition in Amsterdam Brave Beauties in Communion: Imaging Black Queer Liberation organised by Motormond. Read a story on the exhibition here.
This article is a republication from Bijlmair that is published in Dutch.
