Iké Udé

thumb|Iké Udé - 2024 (cropped) Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist, author, and publisher based in New York City, United States. Quotes What I’m most interested in is why we use costumes, how we use them, when we use them, and where we use them. Culture insists that we remain clothed from birth to death. Military thugs had taken over and plundered the wealth of the country, systematically destroyed Nigeria, and continued to damage it while I was away. Nollywood is perhaps the best thing to come out of Africa since the Pyramids, the Pharaohs, and the Queen’s Obelisks. Beauty has always been the most perfect, the most profound, the most lasting agent of change, immortality, timelessness, and hence the most radical of all artistic agents. The African image and beauty has been trashed by Western colonial interventions. The self can only exist in relation to other selves. We all mirror each other and are essentially of the one and same human race. If one can acquire the patience of old processes in making pictures, then one can make extraordinary images. I want to do it very well and I want to study people who did it very well. It was me being called in to be a contrarian, to give a different perspective every now and then. External links Category:Living people Category:1964 births Category:Artists from Nigeria Category:Photographers from the United States Category:Photographers from Nigeria Category:People from Lagos Category:Nigerian emigrants to the United States