Hi there,

I’m Daniel Adegbesan; I’m a Nigerian-American lens-based social practice artist living and working in Baltimore City, Maryland.

My creative practice is predominantly informed by my lived experience as a third-culture kid in the suburbs of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and as a product of the post-colonial wave of African migration to the United States in the 1990s. My parents wouldn’t describe themselves as artists or archivists, but instant cameras and miniDV tapes were as ever-present in my childhood as white rice and pounded yam. Inevitably, I appropriated the family Coolpix in 2016 and never got around to returning it.

Today, as a landscape photographer, human elements within my images tend to serve as ancillary components of a greater environmental subject, thereby situating individuals within a broader spatial and cultural context. Concurrently, as a dialogue facilitator, I embrace the responsibility of tuning diverse individual perspectives towards the wider collective frequency of a particular room. In both of these capacities, my eyes and ears operate as tools of synthesis and calibration, defining the axis of what can be seen and what can be felt.

I do not believe that art alone can save the world, and my work as a photographer is firmly secondary to my identity as a placemaker. Both exist to facilitate conversations regarding the impact of people on the world and the impact of people on each other.

With dialogue and imaging as my two guiding modalities, this juxtaposition between sound and silence reflects an invitation towards a world more deeply anchored in patience, participation, and consideration.

I hope you’ll join me there.