Oluwatosin Daniju Photography

Commissioned


"Wasi Daniju is one of the best photographers I’ve seen in a very long time. Her pictures are thrillingly emotive, and she has the rare ability to capture both people and objects at their most natural."

         - Musa Okwonga, writer

A young woman in a pink jumpsuit with locs and green nail varnish stands in a brightly lit bookshop, smiling at someone off camera. Another woman stands to one side smiling at her, and a man stands in the background, behind the shop counter.

Book launch - Athena Kugblenu's History's Most Epic Fibs

A young woman wearing a head scarf, earrings, glasses, and a black and white kuffiyeh over black clothing stands, speaking into a mic, reading from a sheet of paper she is holding. Out of focus, in the background, other performers are sat listening.

Stand With Palestinians: Messages from Gaza | Arcola Theatre

A young woman stands next to a seated young girl, showing her how to knit - the girl looks on, awe-struck. An older woman in a head-wrap sits next to the girl, knitting.

Black Girl Fest

A tall well-built man with a beard and in an illustrated t-shirt stands talking to a young girl in glasses and a black football shirt, and a young woman in a white top and dungarees. A partially seen sign behind him says "library".

Free Books Festival

Two women in blue uniform dresses, one sat and one stood behind her, look down, reading something on the desk in front of them. In the background, there is a red blood drop sign, partially visible.

NHS Give Blood X Black Girls Fest

A woman, wearing a green shirt and glasses, sits at a table looking at a a book she is holding, titled "If the system cripples you, you cripple the system". The metal table reflects her, and two other books are in front of her on the table.

91 DIVOC exhibition launch

A young man smiles and looks slightly downwards; in the background there is a green bush against a white brick wall.

Mind Mental Health Charity

Two speakers sit in white chairs - a tall, plus-size woman with a large afro, butterfly-embellished glasses and a purple boa, and a woman with dwarfism, in a beige skirt and blouse, hair back in a bun. The front of a wheelchair is visible to one side.

Black Girl Fest

A woman with a curly afro, glasses and a black and white top stands at a podium in front of purple lit silver drapes, laughing and looking towards the audience, some of whom can be seen from behind.

Wasafiri New Writing Prize

Two men in identical t-shirts reading "I heart politics" are midair, doing identical star jumps; in the background are the houses of parliament.

Tatton Spiller & Tiernan Douieb publicity images

Seven women stand in a curved line, some with arms around each other, some with fists raised, all smiling happily down at the camera. Behind them, partially seen, are large painted portraits - you can see glimpses of gold, brown and blue.

Festival of Collective Liberation

Two young women dance, one looking up and singing into a mic, the other with one hand raised, finger pointing like Night Fever, while a third sits looking on from one of a pair of striped arm-chairs. Large spinning stools and plants are around them.

Free Books Festival

Event - two audience members sit together looking at an issue of Wasafiri magazine, while in the background two members of the Wasafiri staff team talk to each other.

Wasafiri Launch - Windrush: Writing the Scandal

A woman stands with eyes closed, sideways to the camera, mouth open mid-sentence, dressed all in white, with a large yellow bead necklace. A second woman is in the background, standing with eyes closed also.

Festival of Collective Liberation

Head and shoulder portrait of a woman with collar-length black curly hair, wearing glasses and a denim shirt over a black t-shirt with Love written on it. She smiles directly into the camera.

Akeema Thomas | Sisters Doing It For Themselves.
Women's Resource Centre oral history project

Two women stand, one on each side of a younger man, each with a fist raised, all smiling at the camera. Behind them is a stage on which are a row of large portraits of Black women, each in mainly gold and brown on a blue background.

Festival of Collective Liberation

A joyous audience on their foot, dancing with their left legs raised in synch.

Black Girl Fest

A man and a woman sit next to each other on a large curved seating booth - they mirror each other, smiling widely at each other, arms crossed, and legs, crossed at the ankles, stretched out diagonally across the seats. Two framed photos are above them.

Sabine Chalmers and Amit Sharma | Kiln Theatre

A woman with long box braids sits in a wheelchair, sideways on to the camera. She is smiling widely into the camera, and the photo is taken from behind another person who is holding up a video camera with a mic attached.

Sisters of Frida celebration

A young woman in a shift dress stands on one side of a weaving loom, seeming to instruct the 4 girls on the other side, 3 of whom are weaving while the 4th looks on. The loom is by a window, letting in bright light.

Free Books Festival

A pregnant woman in a floral-print dress stands on a grassy hill, her hands gently resting on her belly, and a gentle smile on her face as she looks slightly skyward. The photo is taken from a low angle, so most of the background is a cloudy sky.

Pregnancy portrait session

Head and shoulders portrait of a woman stood against a brick wall, smiling and looking off up to the side.

Nadia Kamil publicity image

A young woman with curly black hair in yellow dungarees addresses an onlooking crowd, holding up a piece of paper with the logo "Glitch" on it, in front of a banner for Glitch. She has a surprised look on her face, echoed by some onlookers.

Black Girl Fest

A woman lies on a gurney donating blood. She is smiling at a donation nurse who is at one side of the image, and in the background is a blue and white banner with the NHS Give blood logo visible.

NHS Give Blood X Black Girl Fest

A young man stands with arms open wide, hands in fists, in front of a mic, loudly speaking. Behind him, bright stage lights and a backdrop with the word Bang repeated on it in black and white in various ways.

Rob Auton at Bang Said The Gun | Sky Arts

Portrait of a young woman, seen from the stomach up, wearing a sleeveless white top, and with a colourful scarf wrapped round her neck. She is smiling slightly and looking into the camera, standing against a white wall.

Freedom from Torture staff portraits

Event - poet James Goodwin (a young man with chest-length locs in a blue t-shirt, wearing a silver chain and black glasses) stands in front of a banner for Wasafiri magazine, hands gesturing as he recites one of his poems to the audience (off-camera).

Wasafiri Launch - Windrush: Writing the Scandal

Two older women stand smiling and hugging each other sideways, while an older man standing next to them also smiles. All three wear glasses, and are in tiered seating, full of a seated, mainly Black audience.

Festival of Collective Liberation

Paula Akpan (a bald Black woman with glasses, BGF co-founder) puts a wrist band on a Black girl arriving for the festival. Behind her on the wall is a large poster for the festival, bright orange with white text reading "Black Girl Fest Take up space"

Black Girl Fest

Director of TLC, Aki Schilz, a smiling young woman with straight brown hair in a black jumpsuit, stands next to a young man with curly brown hair and glasses in front of a vertical banner for TLW

TLC (The Literary Consultancy) 25th Anniversary


Three people smile as they look at something on the mobile phone held by one of them. One of the women is wearing hijab, and the other two people are wearing traditional outfits.

Inclusive Mosque Initiative Eid

A group (two young women and a man) work together around a sheet of flipchart paper laid on the ground. The two women are sat on the ground, the man on the chair; they are mid-discussion, one woman is laughing, the second listening while the man talks.

COMMON GROUND

A jewellery vendor shows off one of her own necklaces to someone browsing, smiling and touching the necklace that she is wearing, while holding another up to it. Her stall shows various colourful necklaces, and in the background there are many more stalls

Black Girl Fest

Portrait of a non-binary person, from the chest up; they are wearing glasses, and a zipped-up black leather jacket over a button down shirt, and are smiling slightly into the camera. They are stood in front of a colourful mural, which can be partly seen.

Rivers Solomon author photos

Picture through a fence atop a wall made up of a tessellated pattern of crosses, with two people sat against the wall on the other side, their backs to the camera. One person is more fully visible, wearing a soft hat and red-backed vest over a shirt.

Raise Your Gaze

Event - Wasafri editor, Emily Mercer (a person with short curly brown hair, in khaki-coloured trousers and an aubergine-colour t-shirt) stands in front of a vertical banner for Wasafiri magazine, talking animatedly to the audience (off-camera).

Wasafiri Launch - Windrush: Writing the Scandal

Two people sit in blue soft chairs in front of a wall of bookshelves - the woman, in a floral dress, looks over at the man, in a striped shirt and shorts, who is reading into a mic from the book he is holding.

Free Books Festival

Novelist Dorothy Koomson sits in a white armchair, speaking into a mic, next to writer Daniellé DASH, who is looking at Koomson as she speaks. Behind them you can see the corner of a screen which has Dorothy Koomson's name and social media details.

Black Girl Fest

Two older, bearded men sit smiling together; one is holding a mobile phone with the screen on, and wearing a grey jacket and headphones round his neck; the other is blind, his eyes closed, he is wearing a blue jumper and holding a white stick.

91 DIVOC exhibition launch

A person singing and playing guitar; they are wearing a suit and a pink fedora-style hat, and sitting in a wheelchair.

Sisters of Frida celebration

A person sits in a wheelchair, a baby strapped to their chest, and they are looking through a book. Another person looks on from the background.

Raise Your Gaze

A woman with white/silver hair stands speaking into a mic she is holding, an open copy of a Wasafiri magazine in her other hand. She is looking off camera, and wearing a burgundy jacket, with turquoise and black sleeves emerging at the wrist.

Wasafiri 40th Anniversary Party

Two men in identical t-shirts reading "I heart politics" sit next to each other on a wall; in the background are the houses of parliament.

Tatton Spiller & Tiernan Douieb publicity images

A pregnant woman stands, hands cradling her belly, and looking down at it.

Pregnancy portrait session

A collection of turbah (small stone tablets used by some for salat) on a sunny windowsill, in front of a sign reading "Inclusive Mosque Initiative Welcome". A criss-cross of shadows fall onto the turbah and sign from the window.

Inclusive Mosque Initiative Eid

A group of young people sit cross legged and engaged around a sheet of flip-chart paper on the floor, one talking and one making notes.

COMMON GROUND

A man with a close shaved beard and moustache and short hair, wearing a grey jacket over a black shirt stands, speaking into a mic, reading from a sheet of paper he is holding. Out of focus, in the background, other performers are sat listening.

Stand With Palestinians: Messages from Gaza | Arcola Theatre

A young smartly dressed woman stands at a glass podium in front of a banner for "TLC), addressing a seated audience, some of who can be seen from behind.

TLC (The Literary Consultancy) 25th Anniversary

Two men stand next to each other at 90 degrees, one smiling at the other, who is looking up and gesturing with one hand as he speaks. Both are dressed in black, and behind them to one side is a large mounted poster of a Wasafiri magazine cover.

Wasafiri 40th Anniversary Party

A woman is seen from behind and above, sitting in a chair reading a flowchart (out of focus in the picture).

Freedom from Torture trainers

Close up of hands holding a mobile phone open to the instagram page of tiata fahodzi.

Leaders of the Future | tiata fahodzi

An audience, almost exclusively of Black women, sits smiling and laughing at the stage (off-camera).

Black Girl Fest

A group of three women, seemingly an older woman and her two adult children, stand with arms around each other, smiling widely at someone just off camera. A camera person in front of them (back to camera) appears to be filming them.

Free Books Festival

Two women stand behind a table full of neat piles of various issues of Wasafiri magazine, with Wasafiri mounted posters on the alcoves behind them. Both are looking down together at a tablet, which one of them is tapping.

Wasafiri 40th Anniversary Issue Launch

A landscape page showing the programme of events for Saturday of the Bare Lit festival. The top half of the page is made up of 4 columns of text, and the bottom shows photos of various crowd members from a past festival.

Bare Lit programme

The front page of Mind's annual review, with much of it taken up by a close-up head and shoulders' portrait of a young man, smiling gently and looking off to the side of the camera. The text on the cover reads "Together we won't give up."

Mind annual review

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