Eko-systems continues Random Photo Journal trailblazing work to “build a community that promotes the work of esteemed African lens based artists and fashion designers” in quality print, and also online.

The title of the new issue “Eko-system” was coined from the original name of Lagos “Ekó” to emphasize the magazine’s connection to Lagos, Nigeria and it features diverse artists from: Mali, Ghana, Congo, Uganda, Paris, Germany, Madagascar, Somalia, Sierra Leone and also artists from Nigeria like: Ladan Osman, Nybė Ponzio, Jacques Manga, Allé Gresse, Abdullah Ahmad, Philip Nkansah Boakye, Lloyld Foster, Victoire Douniama, Adetolani Davies, Uchechukwu Ibemere, Medy Kaba, Christian Sanna, Suaad Mohiadin, Lovis May, Dave Hunter, Daniel Feistenauer.

The Magazine was founded by Arinzechukwu Patrick.
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Random Photo Journal, also known as RPJ, is a new no media company operating from Nigeria and beyond focused on the study of the social ecology of neighborhoods and living conditions in Africa.

In the early 1930s photo makers like Seydou Keita, Malik Sidibe, James Barnor, Samuel Fosso and J.D. Ojeikere pioneered African photography to the next level and ever since it has served as an extended mirror to our identity as Africans, not in encompassing spheres but to a large extent. Random Photo Journal, at the core of our mission statement, believe that a photographic memory is pleasing but it is pleasanter to have photography records.

Random Photo Journal is a public record, a study of the daily lives of people in their natural habitat, a visual explanation of our immediate environment, a way for us to understand better the continent we live in, and for the world to better understand us. It is a freeform creative label that fuses diverse mediums of storytelling.

Another moot point is that thirty years from now things are bound to change, for good, for better or for worse, a structure that was here today will be removed tomorrow and if one man in the world has a photograph that represents what space once represented, then that is a visual record of history everyone will appreciate.

“Words can go a long way, but a photograph will travel a much longer road.” If anything, Random Photo Journal is not a travel magazine or tourism studio, how can it be? We are not inviting or showing anyone how to spend their vacation, we are simply saying: “This is us, we exist, this is what we do, this is how and where we live, and we love it a lot”
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