At the end of 2017 a major volume of work entitled African Photographer J.A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial, edited by Martha Anderson and Lisa Aronson, was published on the accomplished and prolific Nigerian photographer Jonathan Adagogo Green. This presented a unified collection of his work as a commercial photographer operating in the Niger Delta region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Green's work circulated widely, and contemporary collectors of his photographs included European colonial officials, administrators, and traders, as well as local Itsekiri chiefs and ruling elites. For many years Green's African identity was obscured by the stamp he used on the reverse of his photographs, identifying himself only as “J.A. Green, Artist Photographer.” However, through collaborative and concerted research in recent years Green's profile has been revealed and raised considerably, and today his work is much sought after; indeed albums containing Green's photographs...

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