David Uzochukwu

**David Ejikeme Uzochukwu** (a mụrụ n'ụbọchị nke nke ịrị n'ọnwa Disemba n'afọ 1998) bụ onye Austria na Naijiria onye na-ese foto nke na-elekwasị anya na foto eserese nke bi ma na-arụ ọrụ na Brussels na Berlin.

Ọ bụ onye na-abụghị nwoke ma ọ bụ nwanyị.

## Mmalite ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ David Ejikeme Uzochukwu na Innsbruck, Austria, nne ya bụ onye Austria ebe nna ya bụ onye Naijiria. A zụlitere ya na Innsbruck, tupu ọ kwaga Luxembourg na Brussels. Kemgbe ahụ, ọ bi na Vienna na Berlin ebe ọ na-agụ akwụkwọ inweta Bachelor of Fine Arts na nkà ihe ọmụma na Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

## Ọrụ
Uzochukwu malitere site na ise onwe ya wee gbanwee gaa na-ise foto na okike. Foto ya na-agwakọta ngwucha mmepụta na foto dị omimi, na-enyekarị ihe eserese nke ịnọpụ iche na-adabere n'ahụ ya na ngosipụta anụ ahụ nke anwụrụ ọkụ, ígwé ojii, mmiri, na ọkụ. Ihe oyiyi ya na-egosi, dịka ọmụmaatụ, mbara igwe na-acha anụnụ anụnụ nke na-aghọ mgbidi, kristal nke na-ese n'etiti ikuku, ájá mgbawa ugwu nke na-aghọ ihe mkpuchi nkasi obi, ma ọ bụ ọbara nke na-aghọ ihe mkpuchi.

Ọrụ ya na-egosipụtakarị ihe ndị ọ chọpụtara banyere agbụrụ na queerness. Na Unseen *Amsterdam*, dịka ọmụmaatụ, ọ gosipụtara usoro foto nke jiri onyinyo nke ihe ndị e kere eke dị na mmiri, nke nwere nku, ọdụ, ma ọ bụ ezé dị nkọ. N'afọ 2019, Uzochukwu na-ekwu na ọrụ ndị a na-egosipụta 'ihe ọ pụtara ịbụ onye a kpọrọ 'onye ojii', inwe echiche mmegbu nke agbụrụ a na-amanye, ma na-enwe ọganihu n'agbanyeghị nke ahụ.'

Ọrụ ya kachasị ọhụrụ bụ ememe nke ndị na-emepụta ihe na Naijiria. Ihe osise ọ bụla na-elekwasị anya na 'ike nkpaghasị' nke ndị nka a na-eji iji kwaa ókèala ma mee ka ihe mee.

Ọrụ ya sitere na mkpali nke sitere n'aka ndị na-ese ihe dịka onye America na-ese foto Gregory Crewdson na onye Kenya-American na-ese ihe Wangechi Mutu, onye ọrụ ya na-ewu eluigwe na ala nke na-ejikọta nwoke na nwanyị, agbụrụ, akụkọ ihe mere eme, na njirimara onwe onye.

N'afọ 2016, e gosipụtara usoro ya A Familiar Ruin na BOZAR Center for Fine Arts dị ka akụkụ nke ihe ngosi *Dey Your Lane*!, nke onye Naijiria Azu Nwagbogu haziri.

## Ihe ngosi (nhọrọ)

* *FOM Foto Maastricht*, 6211-kunskwartier, Maastricht, August 2014
* Flickr Friday: A Living Room, iGNANT, Berlin, Jenụwarị 2014; ya na Fantastic Frank haziri
* *Flickr*, 20 Under 20, nke onye nduzi foto Vogue bụ Ivan Shaw haziri, Milk Studios, New York, NY, Ọktoba 2014
* *The EyeEm World Tour 2015*, gara Alte Teppichfabrik, 12–13 Septemba 2014; NUMA, Paris, 13–15 Nọvemba 2014; EyeEm Studio San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 14 Nọvemba 2014; Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, 29–30 Nọvemba 2014; Art basel miami, The Lab Miami, Miami, FL, 1–7 Disemba 2014; Tokyo Institute of Photography, Tokyo, 3–21 Disemba 2014; Haus der Universität, Düsseldorf, 30 Jenụwarị 2015, dịka akụkụ nke Düsseldorf Photo Weekend; Soho House Toronto, Toronto, 25 Febụwarị 2015; Openhouse Gallery, New York, NY, 26 Machị 2015
* Unlocked, curated by Vassilis Zidianakis, ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture, Athens, 24 February – 22 April 2016
* Africa Salon - mo(ve)ments: African Digital Subjectivities, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 29–31 March 2016
* Whispering Stills, Never Apart, Montréal, 16 Eprel - 9 Julaị 2016
* *Dey Your Lane* !, nke Azu Nwagbogu haziri, BOZAR Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, 17 June - 16 September 2016
* Lagos Photo Festival, Inherent Risk; Rituals and Performance, curated by Azu Nwagbogu, Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, 22 October – 21 November 2016
* 27th Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Film Cinema, Where Future Beats, curated by Azu Nwagbogu and Maria Pia Bernardoni, Casello Ovest di Porta Venezia, Milano, 19–26 March 2017; co-organised by Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos
* Portraits, Photo Brussels Festival 02, Hangar, Photo Art Center, Brussels, 17 Nọvemba 2017 - Jenụwarị 19, 2018
* *Songe du Présent*, MuPHo Musée de la photographie de Saint Louis, St Louis, Sénégal, 3–25 Mee 2018; haziri n'oge Dak'art Biennale 2018
* Innate: Future Blooms (Djeneba Aduayom), La Villa Rouge, Dakar, 3–25 Mee 2018; dị ka akụkụ nke ihe ngosi Bridge nke MuPHo Musée de La Photographie de St Louis haziri, n'oge Dak'art Biennale 2018
* Transparent, Kalonoma Festival, Munich, 5 Mee 2018
* *Mgbe* ụkpụrụ omume zutere Aesthetics, atụmatụ Vogue Italia, Leica Gallery Milano, Milan, 4–20 June 2018
* Liquid Thunder, An Immersive Soundscape Experience With David Uzochukwu, MONOM, Berlin, 13 Ọktoba 2019; (ihe ngosi naanị ya na ntinye ụda nke William Russell)
* PhotoVogue Festival 2018, Embracing Diversity, nke Alessia Glaviano na Francesca Marani haziri, BASE Milano, 14–17 November 2019
* Unseen *Amsterdam*, 20–22 Septemba 2019; nke Gallery Number 8, Brussels nọchitere anya ya
* PhotoVogue Festival 2019, *A Glitch* in the System, nke Alessia Glaviano na Francesca Marani haziri, BASE Milano, 14–17 Nọvemba 2018

## Ọrụ
Uzochukwu malitere ịse foto mgbe ọ dị obere. O jiri igwefoto nne ya na-ese ihe mgbe ọ dị afọ iri, ọ malitere ịkekọrịta foto ya n'ọtụtụ ebe mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na atọ. Mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na isii, Uzochukwu bụrụ ọkachamara ma bịanye aka na Iconoclast Image na Gallery 8. Mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na asaa, FKA Twigs họpụtara Uzochukwu ka ọ gbaa mkpọsa dị mkpa maka Nike na Mexico.

Uzochukwu mepụtara mkpọsa maka ndị ahịa dị ka Adobe Photoshop, The Paris Opera (Opéra National de Paris), Dior, Nike, Iris van Herpen, na World Wildlife Fund, ma soro ndị na-ese ihe dịka FKA Twigs, Ibeyi, Benjamin Clementine, Labrinth, Little Dragon, na Pharell Williams rụọ ọrụ.

## Nnabata
N'afọ 2014, a kpọrọ ya EyeEm Photographer of the Year, yana otu n'ime Flickr's inaugural 20under20. N'afọ 2015, o so na mmadụ ole na ole ahọpụtara maka Adobe Photoshop's 25 Under 25 wee nata Canon x Exhibitr Student Photography Award. N'afọ 2019, a họpụtara ya maka CPH:LAB 2019/2020, mmemme mmepe talent nke CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Festival.

## Ebensidee

## Njikọ mpụga
 

* Official website
* David Uzochukwu, Iconoclast Image
* David Uzochukwu, Galerie Number 8
* Le One Minute Portrait de David Uzochukwu, Dailymotion

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