Rachel Seidu. Love is the work

Her work seeks to build a visual archive of queer existence in Nigeria while confronting the violence of exclusion, including conversion therapy and the role of religious institutions in sustaining cultures of intolerance. Through personal narratives, Seidu reflects on the universal questions of belonging, self-determination, and the freedom to live authentically.

The exhibition at Between Bridges will be the first extensive solo presentation of Rachel Seidu’s work in Germany.

Seidu (b. 1997, Lagos, Nigeria) lives and works in Lagos. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Photo Elysee Museum (2025, Switzerland), Institut pour la photographie (2025, Lille, France), Festival Planches contact (2024, Deauville), Freedom Multitudes (2024, Houston, USA), YSL Rive Droite (2023, Paris/Los Angeles), Awa nibi (2023, Lagos/Hamburg), Festival Foto Wien, and the 4th Biennial of Photography in Guayaquil, Ecuador. In 2023, she collaborated with Yves Saint Laurent on an exhibition and fanzine. She is a member of Black Women Photographers and the African Photojournalism Database.