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Publication 08

GRIOT: THE FLY ON THE WALL

The second book followed a life in motion.
ROLEPHOTOGRAPHY + EDITING + DESIGN + PUBLISHING
AUTHOR + PHOTOGRAPHERDIDIER AKINLABI OSIAS
RELATIONSHIPAUTHORED WORK
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01

From New York to Paris

The Fly on the Wall gathered photographs made between 2020 and 2022. Friends, family, public figures, rooms, streets, New York, and Paris move through its forty pages.

The camera stays close without trying to stop the life around it. The book is about being present long enough for public and private moments to sit beside one another.

02

A wider field

The second book opened the series outward. It kept the intimacy of the first Griot while letting travel, work, nightlife, and a changing community enter the sequence.