Uche Okpa-Iroha
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Uche Okpa-Iroha

Nigeria • 1972

Biography

Uche Okpa-Iroha is a photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. He studied at the Education Federal University of Technology, Owerri. Okpa-Iroha’s first major project, Under Bridge Life, was published in 2008 and later awarded the Seydou Keita Prize for best photographic creation at the 8th Bamako Encounters.

He is a leading member of the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Project and a founding member of the Blackbox Photography Collective. He is also founder of the Nnele Institute (African Center for Photography) and was a fellow of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kusten, Amsterdam.

Okpa-Iroha recently exhibited his series The Plantation Boy at LagosPhoto 2013 in Lagos, Nigeria and the JoBurg.
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When was Uche Okpa-Iroha born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1972