First edition of Money Must Be Made by Lorenzo Vitturi (2017)
First impression
Large format hardback in fine condition
Signed and numbered (1/150)by Lorenzo Vitturi to front end page
No markings
Each cover is handmade by Lorenzo Vitturi
About
Money Must Be Made is Lorenzo Vitturis highly anticipated second photobook, and it takes us straight to the heart of the Balogun Market in Lagos, Nigeria. Continuing to explore themes such as globalization, urbanization, colonialism and capitalism, Vitturi has spent the past three years working on the project. The many streets that host the Balogun market sprawl from the shadow of a twenty-seven-storey building called the Financial Trust House. For a long time this building was the tallest on the island, housing western corporations and banks in its heyday. Unoccupied now, real estate developers say the House will remain so for as long as the market is unregulated. Here we find the paradox that so interested Vitturi where his previous publication Dalston Anatomy surveyed gentrification killing off local business in London, in Lagos he found quite the opposite: gentrification in reverse.
