Yagazie Emezi (born March 2, 1989) is a Nigerian artist and self-taught independent photojournalist based in Lagos, Nigeria. Emezi, a native of Old Umuahia in Umuahia South, Abia State, was born March 2, 1989, and raised in Aba, Nigeria. She is the younger of two siblings, her older sibling being Akwaeke Emezi. Emezi started with photography in 2015 and has been commissioned by The Washington Post, National Geographic, Al-Jazeera, The New York Times, Vogue, Newsweek, Inc., TIME, The Guardian, Refinery29, Everyday Projects, The Weather Channel and The New York Times Magazine. In 2017, Emezi lived in Monrovia, Liberia for ten months documenting the impact of education for girls in at-risk communities and then returned to her ongoing project Re-learning Bodies which explores how trauma survivors, outside the narrative of violence and abuse, adapt to their new bodies while marking the absence of an effusive culture around body positivity as a noteworthy cultural phenomenon. More information...
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