Visa Lottery 1

I first heard about Visa lotteries in Church. This body of work Titled "Give Us this Day" is an examination of Hope and psychological copping mechanisms. Hope, if considered a commodity, sells amazingly well— especially in lesser-privileged parts of Lagos. Lottery games and religious zealotry are common worldly phenomena and usually separate. In Lagos however, they present similarities: their organisational structure, social effects and the psychological functions they occupy seem comparable, if not identical. The most prominent and lucrative venture for lotteries and majority religious institutions relies on the merchandising of Hope. "Give Us this Day" is a photographic project exploring the interlinks between these practices, their overlaps, and the functions they co-perform: to provide—at little cost—a reason to believe that tomorrow may be better than today, even when evidences strikingly point to the contrary.