Lagos Aerial Photography II: Exploring Urban Density & Infrastructure

In the heart of Lagos, the tension between people and their environment is baked into the land. This aerial photography series explores that tension—between buildings and waterways, between gridlock and circulation, between chaos and design.

Edited into monochrome, these black & white drone photographs abstract the familiar layout of Lagos into stark images about infrastructure and habitation. This is the city shown from above—a perspective only aerial photography can offer, rarely seen but deeply experienced.

Idunmago Cloverleaf Interchange

Carter Bridge

Third Mainland Bridge

1. Graphic Symmetry - Idunmago Cloverleaf Interchange

The very first Highway interchange after the Third Mainland bridge into Lagos Island. It leads to the heart of Isale Eko; Lagos Island's business district.

2. Carter Bridge

The middle sister of the three bridges this artery connects Apapa port by land and Iddo Terminus: the last stop of the Lagos Railway to the Lagos Marina CBD. The center of all financial activites in the state.

3. The Line - Thrid Mainland Bridge

A quiet moment on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos’ most crucial overwater passage. A lifeline streching across the Lagos coast.

Idunmago Cloverleaf Interchange

The 3 Bridges; Third mainland, Eko bridge and Carter bridge

4. The Perfect Loop - Idunmago Cloverleaf Interchange II

Idunmago Overpass draws perfect loops over the Ring Road, creating accidental art from civic utility—order imposed atop chaos.

5. Arteries of Connection

From Left to Right: Eko Bridge,Carter Bridge and Third Mainland Bridge. These 3 bridges span the divide between Mainland Lagos and Lagos Island.

To see Lagos from above is to witness the scale of ambition and improvisation that defines it. These aerial photographs of Lagos prompt us to question: what do we really know of Lagos until we step back—or rise above—and view it as a whole?