Deronke Abdul · Documentary Photographer
Section 02 — Chapters

Stories

The work gathers around people and places that are often described from a distance. Here, the camera moves closer — not to expose, but to stay.

Keeping Girls in the Picture
Chapter 01

Keeping Girls in the Picture

Girls' education, advocacy, and return after COVID-19.

A documentary commission following young girls, parents, and community advocates in Nigeria as they navigate school dropout, economic pressure, gendered violence, stigma, and the fragile work of returning to learning.

DocumentaryGirls' EducationSocial ImpactNigeriaUNESCO
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Treat Me As A Human Being
Chapter 02

Treat Me As A Human Being

A portrait chapter on the quiet, unconditional request to be met as a person.

Made in Abuja with Samantha, a young trans woman, this chapter sits close to one life and listens. It moves through the ordinary textures of being — work, rest, company, solitude — and the harder weather of being misread, dismissed, or shut out of spaces most people take for granted. What surfaces is not a case to argue but a person to meet: someone living, working, building a life, and asking only for what should never need asking. The title is the whole of it — a sentence offered in her own words.

PortraitureDignityNigeriaDocumentary
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NLM
Chapter 03

NLM

A quiet study of memory, place, and what remains.

A restrained body of work to be experienced slowly — an atmospheric chapter concerned with traces, stillness, and the emotional residue of place.

MemoryPlaceStillnessVisual EssayDocumentary
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CARE_AMAL Initiative
Chapter 04

CARE_AMAL Initiative

Community care, maternal knowledge, and the systems that support women.

A visual record of care work, gathering, and support. The story connects to a long-term interest in women's health, traditional knowledge, maternal experience, and the relationship between community and wellbeing.

CommunityWomen's HealthCareDocumentaryFieldwork
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