August Udoh on Fstoppers

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For August Udoh, photography is everything. “This is the only thing I like to do and why I wake up in the morning,” he says.
Born in Lagos in 1988, August is a self-taught photographer with a stubborn streak and unflappable love for the medium. “

He is more of a portraitist and finds the human face interesting and believes that finally in the end there is nothing but the face and the truth is the power of the landscape of the face, the valleys and the promontories and all other elements they represent, its truly how we know each other and there is nothing on earth more fascinating than the human face..

Often spare and unflinchingly tight, August Udoh's photographs are a quiet yet striking rebuttal to today’s hyper retouched and uber stylized images. “There’s a whole new vocabulary surrounding photography that I find quite vulgar. For me, it’s not about ‘shooting’ and sensationalism,” he says. “It’s a magic moment that happens in the first few minutes of a sitting. Revealing something from out of my subjects that isn’t obvious — finding the beauty within.”