Azu Nwagbogu
Switzerland | Fine Arts
January 2017 — Fine Arts
Founder and director of LagosPhoto, Nwagbogu will participate in Plat(t)form 2017 – Forum for New European Photography in Winterthur, as well as allocate time for general network development in Switzerland.
The LagosPhoto Festival, is an annual international arts festival of photography which brings leading local and international photographers in dialogue with multifaceted stories of Africa. He’s also the creator of Art Base Africa, a new virtual space to discover and learn about contemporary African Art and diaspora.
Nwagbogu also founded the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF), a non-profit organisation based in Lagos, and dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary African arts and artists.
He has been collecting and owns a diverse collection of modern contemporary art and has been curating private collections for various prominent individuals and corporate organisations in the continent for the past 20 years.
