The Street Dreams project is aimed at equipping young girls with skills in documentary photography and also giving them cameras to kick off their photography careers. We are so excited about this partnership with Lensational and grateful to our sponsors: PIND Foundation, Jumia Nigeria, Fifis Food House, Ogoni Stories and Greetings World.
We are happy to announce the four trainers who will be teaching the girls on the 4th and 5th of November, 2018.
- Bernard Kalu
Bernard Kalu is a documentary photographer based in Lagos.
Photography is drawing with light and he’s adopted it as a tool to not only tell stories but preserve today for the future. He does a lot of street photography because that’s where the stories are. ‘The streets are always posing looking for who to capture’. He’s been on assignment with a number of organizations within and outside the country. To mention a few, #MyMakokoproject by NBNL, African tourism project by MyAfricanPassport Inc. and so on. He had his first exhibition early 2017 at the Revolving Art Gallery.A computer engineer cum photographer, he is the CEO of Auxano Photography, a photography outfit that he started in 2013 focused on creatively telling wedding stories.
You can find more of his work on www.bernardkalu.com
2. Matthew Smart
Matthew Smart is the Media for Development Officer, @pindfoundation 
he has worked with several local and international development organizations over the past seven years producing photographic and audiovisual documentaries.
3. Grace Ekpu
Grace Ekpu is a trained Broadcast journalist and a self-taught Photographer. She fell in love with photography right from her university days in Nigeria after a photoshop class changed her life. From a hobby, she did a few commercial works while studying in Glasgow, U.K in 2011. She is interested in Street Photography, documentaries and events. She loves to travel and is passionate about telling people’s stories through pictures.
Her drive to learn everyday and do so much more keeps her going. Grace is a First class graduate of Mass communication from Babcock University, and currently pursuing a PhD in Media studies.
Grace hopes to someday empower other women with interests in these fields.
4. Bayo Omoriobowo
Bayo is a Nigerian photojournalist, and documentary photographer. He is the Chief Official photographer for
President Muhammad Buhari.
We also have Fati Abubakar of Bits of Borno stepping in as a mentor for the girls!
Visual Storyteller Fati Abubakar was born in Maidugiri, Borno State. She developed a passion for photography
which led to the creation of bitsofborno, since September 2015, she has interviewed as well as taken pictures of the residents of Borno with a mission to change the perception of Boko Haram brutality associated with the state.