Artists · Savage Tha Beast · 2023 · Lagos, Nigeria

Uzere Boy

Album campaign for Savage Tha Beast’s ‘Uzere Boy’, photographed in the riverine Delta — canoes, chessboards and okadas against golden walls; a homecoming record grounded in the place that made him.

Savage Tha Beast stands arms crossed in a wooden canoe on a calm Niger Delta river.

The artist, in white tank top and khaki cargos, sits on a dugout canoe's prow in golden light.

Leaning against a tree trunk in a rust bucket hat, tinted glasses and floral tapestry trousers.

He rests his head back in warm evening light as a woman braids his hair in a doorway.

Wearing bantu knots and a pale blue shirt, he moves a chess piece before a numbers-covered wall.

Reclining shirtless along a motorcycle seat beneath a tree, legs stretched out against a yellow wall.

Close portrait leaning on motorcycle handlebars at sunset, tattooed arms crossed, bantu knots catching amber light.

Shirtless portrait among banana leaves, tattoos across his chest and arms, Moschino waistband above faded jeans.

Seated on a Lagos-plated motorcycle in sand at dusk, one boot propped on the seat, gazing ahead.