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In 2018, stories of ritual killings and money rituals flooded Nigerian news cycles. They revealed a society grappling with the desperation of poverty and the seduction of quick wealth.

In this image, I staged a man kneeling in the rain, one hand bound in a loose cuff, the other clutching a Bible. His face lifts upward, caught between despair and prayer. The composition speaks to the contradictions of our reality: a society chained by the lust for money, yet reaching toward redemption.

This work is less about judgment and more about reflection — on what people sacrifice at the altar of survival, and the thin line between faith and fear.