In the ongoing series Lagos: All Roads, a piece of which we feature in this edition, Akinbiyi portrays the many faces of Africa’s largest metropolis, depicting an almost unimaginable sprawl of dense urban activity. Akinbiyi grew up in London and Lagos, and has lived and worked in Berlin for more than 25 years now. Today, he finds himself on a search for “fragments of this lost innocence” that accompanied his childhood in Lagos. The two images made on Victoria Island and shown in this Paper Edition are part of another ongoing series, titled Sea Never Dry. It’s an indepth look at humans’ relationship with the coastline, the delicate border between land and sea. As Akinbiyi describes it, it explores “our intimate longing back to the primary element of our birth, the embodied trauma of the centuries of sea travel, vessels plying waterways in a search for new lands, new environments to conquer and subjugate.”