Tropical Gift

The Business of Oil and Gas in Nigeria

Lutz Christian

Christian Lutz continues his photographic study of power structures with "Tropical Gift". He took portraits in Nigeria of people who live by and with the economic force that dominates everything there, the oil and gas industry. The photographs observe the protagonists' everyday lives and professional world from very close up, the rich profiteers in the capital and the indigenous population in the oil region, the Niger delta. The pictures tell their own story of business with these coveted raw materials subtly, but highly expressively.

About the Author

Christian Lutz, born in Geneva in 1973, studied photography at the Ecole Superieure des Arts de l'Image, "Le 75" in Brussels. His artistic work has been awarded many prizes in Switzerland and abroad, and is regularly shown in exhibitions. He works as a freelance photographer in Geneva since 1996.

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