CONTACT

info@tayojr.com

About

Working with light as both subject and metaphor, Tayo Kuku Jr. creates images shaped by intimacy, resilience, and truth. A Nigerian-American photographer and director, his work unfolds as a dialogue between history and imagination, discipline and intuition, craft and spirit.
His practice spans commercial, editorial, and portrait photography, yet always returns to a central pursuit: expanding how people and cultures are seen. Marked by vivid color and a sensitivity to the atmospheres light can summon — from the sun, or the studio — his photographs resist mere documentation. Instead, each frame becomes a translation, rendering presence into something cinematic, timeless, and deeply human.
Kuku’s images honor what is too often overlooked. They elevate both the individual and the collective, filling the void of representation on both sides of the lens. Through this work, he seeks not only to capture moments, but to consecrate them — building a visual language that crosses boundaries and connects communities around the world.

Exhibitions

2022 something i can feel. the roosevelt collection. chicago, il.
2021 something i can feel. the roosevelt collection. chicago, il.
2021 complexcon. long beach convention center. long beach, ca.
2020 we were them that dreamed. mehari sequar gallery. washington, dc.
2019 fruits of naij. okay space. brooklyn, ny.
2019 p96 summer experience. re:gen:cy. brooklyn, ny.
2019 raw artists: evoke. the fillmore. silver spring, md.
2018 june. ghost studios. brooklyn, ny.

Clients

Billboard, Apple, Adobe, BET, L'Oreal, Kith, McDonald's, Flaunt Magazine, J.P Morgan Chase, Macy's, Los Angeles TImes, Master & Dynamic, Nasdaq, Nike, Savage Fenty, Showtime Networks, Timberland, Universal Music Group, AMC Networks, Essence Magazine, Grazia, Cartier, The Hollywood Reporter