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

My two-pronged creative practice is informed by my lived experience as a first generation American raised along the United States’ East Coast, and as a third-culture representative of the post-colonial wave of African migration to the United States in the 1990s. My parents may not describe themselves as artists or archivists, but cameras and camcorders were as present in my upbringing as white rice and yam flour.

Today, my image-making practice primarily falls under the banner of urban landscape and environmental portraiture. Concurrently, as a cultural worker and dialogue facilitator, my canvas of events, workshops, and gatherings reflect inquiry into the impact of people on the world, and the impact of people on each other.

In each of my modalities, as both an imagemaker and a placemaker, I’ve found a home in being a catalyst for conversations at the axis of what can be seen and what can be felt. I’m fascinated by the relational potential in how we move through the world as a collection of collectives, and am grounded in a definition of community that’s attuned to the broader spatial and cultural context of the world around us.