Yetunde Ayeni Babaeko

Yetunde Ayeni Babaeko was born in Enugu in Eastern Nigeria to a Nigerian father and German mother. Her life has seen her through different stages of living in her maternal and paternal homelands. She moved to Germany as a schoolgirl and embarked on a photography apprenticeship majoring in advertising photography at “Studio Be” in Greven, Germany.

In 2003 she returned to Nigeria and joined Ess-Ay Studio program. Subsequently she enrolled at Macromedia School for art and design in Osnabrueck, Germany. In 2005 she returned to Nigeria as a freelance photographer and in 2007 she opened her own studio in Nigeria. In 2015, as part of the exhibition ‘Eko Moves’, Yetunde created 25 beautiful images which reveal classical ballet and hip hop dancers expressing their flight of vibrancy and attitude against familiar Lagos city backdrops