Gildas Messan Kwami Awuye (b. 1994, Lomé, Togo)

Drifting between memory and presence, Gildas Messan Kwami Awuye’s photography captures the essence of fleeting moments—the warmth of human connection, the quiet weight of a landscape, the pulse of a city at night. His lens does not merely document; it immerses, pulling the viewer into a world where time slows, light bends, and the mundane transforms into the extraordinary.

With a gaze both intimate and expansive, he moves between the raw and the dreamlike. His portraits hold the quiet honesty of familiarity, while his street scenes hum with movement, their textures and imperfections echoing the unpredictability of life itself. There is a rhythm to his work—a dance between stillness and motion, clarity and blur, presence and absence.

Light leaks, grain, and motion artifacts are not flaws but echoes—reminders that photography, like memory, is never perfect, never fixed. Instead, his images breathe, inviting us to linger in the in-between, where time is fluid and every frame holds the possibility of a story just beyond its edges.

Books
The Ringleaders Football Club : Football Saved My Life
Messan Studios, 297 pages, Hardcover, 2022.