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If you really want to work with somebody, you want to explore their mind and you want to hear what they’ve got to say.

To use your hand to feed yourself, it’s like going into the soul.

There’s always so much other stuff that distracts you from them.

Spaces like Art X Lagos encourage young filmmakers and artists to embrace themselves and not necessarily look to the outer world for validation.

You would never realize they are different continents.

Culture eats with their hands, cause they believe cutlery is just a distance between you and your food.

I am there to celebrate them and there is a trust that let’s them get their guard down.

I really wanted to convey what one experiences when you’re in the hustle of New York.

Being an African who lives somewhere else, there's nowhere more promising than home.

If you truly believe in yourself and what you want talk about that’s the golden key.

I really wanted to play with depth of field, the foreground/background element, with the distances changing constantly.

The book travels through too many contents without screaming where it is exactly.

It’s a combination of all of that it’s a book of ideas, inspiration, what inspires me, rather than just a photography book.

Monograph is a combination of works that I have done the past decade or two that comprises of photography, filmmaking and videomaking.

The book is a journey, you are not bound by borders.

I’m just trying to be respectful to the culture.

I’ve always been very fascinated by wondering what it’s like before and after the picture I’m looking at was taken.

This is where I come from and everything I do is shaped by here.

Nobody knows what you want to talk about better than you. You have that over anyone else.

The world is not ours it’s just centered here. It’s about that global conversation.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andrew Dosunmu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.