Story Story is an ongoing documentary project where I move through different parts of Nigeria, meeting people in their everyday environments, taking their portraits, and recording conversations with them.
The project focuses on real, unfiltered moments, how people live, work, cope, and make sense of their lives. It brings together photography and audio to create a growing archive of lived experiences across different spaces, from mechanic workshops to farms to public institutions.
The goal of Story Story is to build a long-term, accessible archive of everyday Nigerian life, one that preserves real voices, experiences, and environments as they exist today.
It is about paying attention to the ordinary, creating space for people to be heard, and documenting the systems people live within in a way that is honest, respectful, and enduring.
A lot of the stories we see about Nigeria tend to focus on extremes, either crisis or success. What gets lost in between are the everyday lives of people: how they actually live, work, and adapt within the systems around them.
There is very little documentation of these in-between realities, especially in ways that allow people to speak for themselves.
At the same time, many individuals across different communities remain unseen and unheard, even though their experiences reflect the broader conditions of the country.
Story Story addresses this by documenting everyday life through direct engagement with people in their own environments.
Each interaction focuses on one person, one space, and one honest conversation, captured through portrait photography and audio recordings. The project creates a body of work that reflects lived realities without staging or scripting.
By sharing these stories publicly, the project builds a more grounded and human-centred understanding of life in Nigeria.
Story Story operates as a documentary and cultural archive project supported through a mix of public funding, grants, and direct audience support. Revenue and sustainability come from: community funding (grants, quadratic funding, donations) digital releases (photography and audio as collectible media) exhibitions and screenings editorial and documentary outputs The long-term goal is to build a sustainable archive that is both publicly accessible and supported through creative distribution and partnerships.
Want to grow through just grant funding
Nigeria focused for now.
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