Onigele Yii

Taken in a small record shop in Peckham , these photographs follow a simple, quiet moment. Records stacked on shelves , music that lived many lives. In Yoruba , someone might say “Onigele yii” when noticing a person wearing a gele in a way that catches the eye, it’s not about showing off , it’s recognition, attention and respect. That’s what these pictures are all about . Onigele speaks: I am the daughter who remembers I am the generation that translates I wrap my head in my mother’s tongue I sit among the songs that raised me I am both the keeper and the kept I am Onigele yii