20 children cannot play for 20 years. The past year has seen me lose friends I always thought would be
here. In losing them, I’ve also lost myself. But with the loss has come a beautiful find: my love for
photography. These images were taken during aimless walks around the Obafemi Awolowo
University campus, and a group stroll at the University of Ibadan. They are my way of saying it is well,
that I am trying to make peace with the loud silence that is nostalgia. That although evenings aren’t
always beautiful, they always mean tomorrow is coming.

About the artist:

Bankole Joseph Karis is a multi-talented artist who strives to use his creative abilities in writing, photography, and visual art to ask the difficult question of what it means to be human. Currently, much of his work inquires about vulnerability through the eyes of the young black man, and how difficult it is for young male adults of colour, especially those in African settings, to even feel at all, or express their complex emotions. While this is his first published photography work, he has published fiction in NantyGreens, Akowdee, and JayLit.