Painting On the Wall

by Abiola Akinyemi
(Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria)

A few years back when we were in school, my cousin's had a room-mate who seemed to be very good at art. He wanted to enter his paintings into a school competition, but the deadline for sending them was the following morning.

Our only option was to photograph them and send them by email. I had a camera and they needed my photography skills to help them take the pictures to be emailed to the school. The pictures needed to be of a good standard and clear enough to be judged.

Of all the pictures of my friend's paintings I took that day, this is my favourite. It is a painting of one of our female friends that had been drawn on the wall using pastilles.