"This photo exists within the framework of my project Highlife which explores party culture in Lagos. This shot was taken at a nightclub off of Allen Avenue in Ikeja, an area in the city’s mainland that is more working-class than the upmarket areas of Victoria Island and Lekki. Allen Avenue is also incredibly schizophrenic – in the daytime, it is full of shops, banks and churches; at night, it becomes the city’s pulsating party and red light district, full of nightclubs, strip clubs and sex workers. In some cases, places that are restaurants and churches during the daytime transform into nightclubs and strip clubs at night – they just change the signage and the seating arrangements. My Highlife project looks at what people consume and how what they listen to, what they drink and what they experience puts them in a kind of state of ecstasy. Everyone is stressed in Lagos – the traffic, the chaos, the difficulty of everyday living – but everyone also enjoys having a good time and this provides a rich stream of visual experience." -- Andrew Esiebo