By Udemma Chukwuma
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| James-Iroha |
Uche James-Iroha, who
many know as a photographer says, “I’m still a sculptor.” Speaking to Arts and Culture Place in a chat, the
artist says “I still employ the principles of sculpture in my lens-based work. I
might have stopped working in clay, metals, etc. but I still negotiate my
photography with the understanding of symmetry and composition which is often
described as sculptural.”
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New direction, one of his works
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James-Iroha further says he was “seduced by the immediacy of
the medium (photography), and attracted by the fact that it was able to
confront reality directly with the possibility of the artist to manipulate the
elements of art to expand the story.”
He took to photography in 1996 when he graduated from the
University of Port Harcourt.
To him, “sculpting was already popular in both the contemporary and traditional
art scenes but photography for me was a new medium.”
Even though he had not
created any sculpture since he left school, James-Iroha says, “I don't feel like
I left sculpting.” Will he produce sculptures later in life? “I doubt it, but as
the spirit leads.”
He hints that he might have a solo exhibition in
Lagos next year.
James-Iroha
was born in 1972 at Enugu, Nigeria. He works to promote photography and improve
the perception of photographers and photography in Nigeria.
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