Selected Photography from David Ishaya Osu

With each day comes its extremes, fears, anxieties, concerns, challenges, aspirations, victories and joys. Water being my primary element, I have recently started searching the sea of meanings, reasons, myths that form my dailiness. I take this search further by going out to photograph people on water, or by riverbanks. As people swim, as they paddle, as they immerse their body and soul, as they scream their fright or thrill into the body of water, as they try to reach a target, to either go deeper or further, or try to retreat or escape, it hits me passionately the reality we all face as human beings. This is one reason I have committed myself wholly to the art of documenting the dailiness of life as it happens wherever I find myself.

By the Sea

Digital Photography

Side by Side

Digital Photography

As You Can See

Digital Photography

Cast Your Bread

Digital Photography

Telling

Digital Photography

David Ishaya Osu is a poet, memoirist and street photographer. His work has previously appeared in Magma Poetry, Poetry Wales, The Griffith Review, The Oxford Review of Books, The Australian Poetry Journal, and other places. David has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Kent, and is the author of the poetry chapbooks: When I'm Eighteen (2020) and Once in a Blue Life (2020).