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"Looking at two photographers who work closely with memory, one preempting it and the other dissecting it, in this talk I hope to be able to gain a better understanding of the way in which photography can be used as a tool for the creation and upkeep of memory. The relationship between the photographer, the audience and memory is one that I have spent a lot of time exploring. In the work of Amina Kadous, she is actively investigating her own personal memories, and memories that might be familiar to others in her context, and using this as a tool to question the present. In Monochrome Lagos, the work of Logor, he is photographing the city of Lagos in the present so that in the future his photographs might serve as a reference point or even monuments of this moment in history. The two photographers also differ perhaps in their intentions, Logor in the active creation of a public archive, and Amina in the excavation of a private one. Yet, their works bring up questions about personal vs collective memory, intention; versus unintentional archive creation and nostalgia versus present tense. Essentially, what is the role of the photographer and of the audience in the creation of memory? How do you memorialise your present? " — Faridah Folawiyo
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