Kirikisi (Ekassa 24)
Sir Victor Uwaifo: Guitar Boy Superstar 1970-76 (Soundway Records)
Album by Sir Victor Uwaifo
Before Nollywood . . . The Ideal Photo Studio is a living exhibition and an ongoing research and photography project that explores the lives of patrons from the Ideal Photo Studio and a history of Benin City and its community through the photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge. We are seeking your help in naming people in the Ideal Photo Studio portraits, and inviting you to share personal stories and memories of your childhood, friends, family, social life, and community in Benin City, Nigeria, at the Tapestry of Benin Memories wall. To provide information about people in Alonge’s photographs, submit information to the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives via the QR code, in-gallery cards, or elisofonarchives@si.edu (place Ideal Photo Studio in subject line). Once the information has been verified, exhibition labels will be updated.
All images were photographed by Solomon Osagie Alonge in Benin City, Nigeria, unless noted otherwise and are silver gelatin modern prints from the original glass plate negatives in the Chief S.O. Alonge Collection, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives.
Enollywood ke re . . . Owa Isey’ama n’kere keghi re ọrhiemaan’iwu kevbẹ iruẹmwi n’ifo kevbe inwina isey’ama ne agha ya ghe agbon emwa n’ye owa isey’ama n’kere kevbẹ itan or’Ẹdo kevbẹ ikinkin agbon or’Ẹdo ne adeghe vbẹ u we isey’ama ne SolomonOsagie Alọngẹ ru. Tẹ I ma gualo iyobo vbe obọwua vbẹ ne a gha ya rẹẹn eni emwa n’re ama egbe Owa Isey’ama n’kere, kevbẹ we re n’ima gie ne a tie rue ne u t’okha ọghe egbe rue kevbẹ ayere vbẹ u re ovbokhan, ose, ẹgbẹ, agbon n’ẹdẹ, kevbẹ ikinkin agbon or’Ẹdo, Enaigirria vbẹ egbe ekẹn n’avbe ayere ivbiẹ Edo. U gha khian guan kaan emwa nii re isey’ama ne Alọngẹ ru, gbẹn rrie ne Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, u ghi loo QR code ra uwuya elisofonarchives@si.edu (u ghi gbẹn Owa Isey’ama n’kere yọ uhunmwu). Ọmwa ne ọ nwina mwa gha ghẹẹre ighẹ ọ gbare, a ghi do dia avbe emwi ne agbẹn lele ọrhiemaa na.
Solomon Osagie Alọngẹ rẹ ọ ru isey’ama hia n’rre emwa vbẹ or’Ẹdo, Enaigirria, adeghe a ma gbẹn we re inren kevbẹ we a gha rue vbẹ aro emuen ladian vbe emadogua ọghe ughe egbe vbẹ usun inwina Ọkhaemwẹn S. O. Alọngẹ vbẹ Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives.
