She grew up in a Nigerian family of storytellers, steeped in imaginary tales of magnificent castles, extravagantly embroidered garments, fairies, forests, sword fights, trickery—and bloodshed.
As a photographer in adulthood, Nat Geo Explorer Yagazie Emezi used some of those fables to shed light on turmoil that engulfed her homeland but was rarely spoken about. In the image above, our photographer tackles the growing crisis of plastic pollution with The Emperor's New Clothes.
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