RBSA Photography Prize Winners—February 2025
Ayooluwa Folayan received high commendation for his body of work in the RBSA Photography Prize 2025.
RBSA Photography Prize 2025 Artists Announced—February 2025
A review by Anthony Fawcett
Ayo Folayan is a master photographer whom I had the good fortune to meet in person at London’s iconic Boomer Gallery earlier this year.
He transmutes the very heart and soul of the Nigerian women/muses that my eloquent friend Ben Okri has written about in words.
But Folayan has magically brought these timeless icons to life in a series of phosphorescent mise-en-scènes....
Golden Light Through Fracture: The Radical Tenderness of Ayo Folayan
In a contemporary art world often fixated on spectacle, shock, or sterile conceptualism, it is rare, exquisitely rare, to encounter work that speaks
in hushed tones yet echoes across cultural time zones with seismic emotional clarity. Ayo Folayan’s art does precisely that
Folayan's Art Practice: Reframing Identity, Heritage
In Taking a Stance: The Relationship Between Photography and Poetry, Rachel Segal Hamilton looks at the convoluted concourse between the two genres of art.
Ayo Folayan’s Preservation of Cultural Memory In Modern Black Portraiture
Thematically, Ayo Folayan’s works provide commentary on the African and Black experience.