The children come from some of the most affluent as well as disadvantagedcommunities in Lagos. Their photos are meant to help educate people about theextreme poverty gap in Africa's most populous nation. All of the children were given cameras for a weekend to take pictures of theirhomes and environment. EteAyide is the head of the African Child Development Initiative: "Onepart of the project is to bring awareness for the children around Lagos, to beaware that there are some children who are less fortunate than themselves, andto develop the whole empathy process."
Morethan 400 of the best images were put on display.
PamAkinyi is a student photographer. She sayssome things went wrong in her efforts, and gives an example: "Therewere a lot of mistakes when I was taking the pictures. Like the flash, it wasquite hard, because the flash kept going off."
Lagos has some of Africa's mostexpensive real estate, alongside wooden huts built on stilts over alagoon.
Studentphotographer Tobi Aguntor says the photos show two extremes of a vast city of14 million people. He says he took pictures of everyday items: "Itook pictures of some things like the food we eat, even green leaves that livearound us, even water that lives around us, even goats and other animals andother things."
Nigeriais sub-Saharan Africa's second-biggest economy after South Africa. It's home tothe continent's largest oil producers and some of its major financialinstitutions. Organizers say they hope the photo project helps to stimulate theintellectual potential of all of the children, no matter what their backgrounds may be.