Samuel James

Samuel James (b. 1986) is a photographer and educator from Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds a degree in political science from Tufts University and studied photography and fine art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2007, he ventured to Nigeria as a student and has since been engaged in an evolving study of Africa’s most populous and largest oil-producing nation. The first chapter of this project—an inquiry into the realm of Area Boys in Lagos—received the inaugural Exposure/VII Alexandra Boulat Award and is distributed by the VII Photo Agency. He has also completed assignments for the international media, most recently on the resurgence of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria for The New York Times. He is currently Program Coordinator for the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice, a new initiative founded by photographer Gary Knight at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University dedicated to the study and practice of non-fiction storytelling across diverse mediums. He teaches at the Program in the fall semester.