Dayo Adedayo

thumb|Portrait of Nigerian photographer Dayo Adedayo Oladayo Mukaila Adedayo, known as 'dayo Adedayo (born 1 July 1964) is a British-trained Nigerian documentary photographer, cultural anthropologist, and author. He is the author of Nigeria 2.0, a book that documents the story behind many important places in Nigeria. Over the span of more than two decades, Adedayo has travelled across and documented all 36 states in the country. Quotes Too many brilliant, fantastic minds doing something very good, but their presentation is poor. Very commercially viable and, viability is relative, depending on the work and the inputs you choose. Art sells. It all depends on the way it is packaged and the way it is marketed. Business is about creativity. It is about innovation. You don’t follow the crowd. If you are doing it differently, something they have never seen before, that is the only way you can differentiate yourself and name your price. No matter what you do in life, education is key. If you are comfortable in your skin and don’t compare yourself with other people, i.e. you are working on your own trajectory, then money will come if you know what you are doing. If you are doing your work conscienciously and with love, someone up there will look at you and say ‘this guy has really tried; let me patronise him!. The commercial photography is not something that lasts for long. It fizzles out after a while. We are losing a lot, and our children are looking to see another narration of the country. In another 10 years, no one will recognise Lagos State again due to the ever-changing landscape. Nothing is as good as nature. Nature doesn’t need us; instead, we need nature. Without proper education, you cannot achieve much in life in photography. Without the teaching of history and civics in schools, how then do we value what we have? The whole idea is to document all these things to put them in a museum so that generation now and next would have a well of information about Nigeria. External links Category:Living people Category:1964 births Category:Editors from Nigeria Category:Photographers from Nigeria Category:Authors from Nigeria Category:Travel writers Category:Yoruba people