I think I have only just realised (as of two days ago) one of the reasons I shoot the way I shoot. Without the human factor, I am very interested in the elements that make up a building. To try to piece them apart, and bring them back holistically to context, whether it's entranceways, openings, roofs, roof water drains, signage, etc. It tends to feel like these elements call out to me. In this instance, it was the strange trapezoid opening on the façade of this uncompleted church building combined with the way the partly visible stairs gives the false impression that it is a half-turn or dog-leg staircase leading into the roof's ceiling. Of course it wasn't leading into the ceiling! 😅 I made sure to confirm. Unfortunately I couldn't allay their fears enough to allow me take pictures inside. The interior was less impressive — unpainted and unrendered with plaster, just brute concrete and floors covered with fine cement dust — but it featured the typical galleries suspended on columns to either flanks of a church's nave. Ikot Efa Area, Calabar Field, along Murtala Mohammed Highway, Calabar, Cross River State. 2020. #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #calabararchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #facade #calabar #yení #art (at Calabar Municipal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq5BAOqMFhz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
