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Samuel Okechukwu is a documentary photographer and filmmaker who tells visual stories to make change. He also creates beautiful artistic images in representation of culture, lifestyle, poetry and different art categories. He is a core member of the Media4Change team, a part of the international youth media collective known as KnowYourCityTV. Samuel has used video and photography to document and give voice to slumdwellers' struggles including their experiences of forced evictions and livelihood. He passionately believes media can be a transformative tool for building understanding towards a more inclusive city and country as a whole. He has been involved in numerous notable projects and collaborations with Humans Right Watch New York as a Videographer, Corona Diaries audio report with Brazil, Berge Révélees a documentary film in collaboration with the Cotonou media and so many other pieces. He is also part of the core writers, cinematographer for the Sundance Institute funded film, “The Legend Of The Vagabond Queen Of Lagos” (Coming Soon) He has won awards for Best photography of the Desirable City Photography Contest by Urban Coalitions in collaboration with World Resource Institute Brazil, IIED and United Nations Universities.
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A documentary report showing how Covid-19 has plunged Nigeria's urban poor into poverty.
Evictees from Otodo-Gbame community sleep under the bridge after the community of over 30,000 members was unlawfully evicted in April 2017. The evicted community ground is now a place called Periwinkle Estate.
UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Leilani Farha meets with thousands of evictees of Otodo-Gbame community on her official visit to Nigeria.
Three years after the mass eviction from Tarkwa Bay Island, Madam Janet and her child, a son she gave birth to on the day of eviction. The hope for justice continues as many have been waiting for a positive verdict from the Lagos State High Court.
On the 21st of January 2020, Tarkwa-Bay Island under-went force eviction, thousands of community members were evicted from their homes after one hour notice by the Nigerian Navy. Madam Janet gave birth same day as she slept outside.
With beautiful community stories from different places available in the Virtual Reality device, people from communities and market places try the VR for the first time and are amazed that videos can be seen in 360 than the native flat screen.
The Virtual Reality device is one that rarely makes its way to urban poor communities, it is mostly only seen in shopping malls and cinema houses that gives you the device for a fee. As a storyteller, I'm opportune to share this to people for free.
If Walls Could Talk: is a short film that looks into the lives of PLWDs (People Living With Disability), the mistreatment and illegal arrest by the Lagos State Rehabilitation Center. The place of no return from the accounts of many PLWDs.
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