Rotimi Fani-Kayode

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Apr 20, 1955(1955-04-20)
Age	69
Date Of Death	December 21, 1989, London, United Kingdom
Birthplace	Lagos
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Lagos State
Horoscope	Aries

Rotimi Fani-Kayode Biography

Rotimi Fani-Kayode is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on April 20, 1955 in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria.

Oluwarotimi (Rotimi) Adebiyi Wahab Fani-Kayode (20 April 1955 – 21 December 1989) was a Nigerian-born photographer, who moved to England at the age of 12 to escape the Nigerian Civil War. The main body of his work was created between 1982 and 1989. He explored the tensions created by sexuality, race and culture through stylised portraits and compositions.

He especially referenced Esu, the messenger and crossroads deity who is often characterised with an erect penis, frequently in his images. He would engrave an erect penis in many of his images to describe his own fluid experience with sexuality. Fani-Kayode’s mid-1980s portfolio ”Black Male, White Male” intersects his racial and sexual themes with subtle displays of a devotee- deity relationship. Much of that work expresses an ambiguity that can be associated with Esu, who embodies opposing forces. Speaking on Esu, he insists, “Eshu presides here […] He is the Trickster, the Lord of the Crossroads (mediator between the genders), sometimes changing the signposts to lead us astray […] It is perhaps through that rebirth will occur.” Esu also appears in Fani-Kayode’s photography, Nothing to Lose IX. The presence of Esu is understood in the coloring of the mask; using white, red, and black stripes the mask stands as a representation of the deity Esu. Although, these colors symbolize Esu, the mask itself has no precedence in traditional African mask- making; this subtle theme is almost flattening the mask to represent an overarching “African-ness” (a critique of the notion of “primitiveness” that was widely digested by a European audience).

Rotimi Fani-Kayode Net Worth

Rotimi Fani-Kayode is one of the richest Photographer from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rotimi Fani-Kayode 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rotimi Fani-Kayode was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in April 1955, as the second child of a prominent Yoruba family (Chief Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani- Kayode and Chief Mrs Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode) that moved to Brighton, England, in 1966, after the military coup and the ensuing civil war. Rotimi went to a number of British private schools for his secondary education, including Brighton College, Seabright College and Millfield, then moved to the USA in

1976. He read Fine Arts and Economics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, for his BA, continued on for his MFA in Fine Arts & Photography at the Pratt Institute, New York City. While in New York, he became friendly with Robert Mapplethorpe, who he has claimed as an influence on his work.

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In 1988, Fani-Kayode with a number of other photographers – including Sunil Gupta, Monika Baker, Merle Van den Bosch, Pratibha Parmar, Ingrid Pollard, Roshini Kempadoo and Armet Francis – co-founded the Association of Black Photographers (now known as Autograph ABP) and became their first chair. He was also an active member of the Black Audio Film Collective. He was a major influence on young black photographers in the late 1980s and 1990s. Following Alex Hirst’s death in 1992, some controversy has persisted about works attributed to Fani-Kayode.

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His last project, posthumously entitled “Communion” (1995), reflects his complex relationship with Yoruba religion. It seems to emit the Yoruba concepts of coolness and power. He reflects that it is a “tranquilitiy of communion with the spiritual world.” One of the images in the series, “The Golden Phallus,” is of a man with a bird-like mask looking at the viewer, with his penis suspended on a piece of string. The image has been described as an ironic representation of how black masculinity has been burdened by the Western world. In this image (The Golden Phallus), as in Fani-Kayode’s Bronze Head, there is a focus on liminality, spirituality, political power, and cultural history—taking ideals seen as ‘ancient’ (in the display of ‘classical’ African art) and re-introducing them as a contemporary archetype.