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Malik Afegbua, who is also a film maker, said because many
elderly people were marginalised in society, especially in the
fashion world, he began to imagine how they would look if they
were models.
Afegbua started posting some of his work on social media and it
went viral.
He came up with "Elders Series", a catalogue of pictures and
videos showing white-haired women and bearded men strutting the
runway for a virtual fashion show in Afrocentric attire,
including ornamental neck and arm bands.
"So I wanted to ... imagine the elderly people in a place that
is not either in a sad space or in a suppressed state," Afegbua
told Reuters.
"However, when I was making it, I kind of knew there was
something there. I was like this is dope. I'm loving what I'm
seeing."
Afegbua was not always an artist. He studied business in
university but stepped into the world of filming after a friend
bought him a camera in 2011.
He said the idea to explore a different world for old people
came when his elderly mother fell ill. Using an artificial
intelligence app, he started creating content showing a brighter
side of old age.
(Reporting by Angela Ukomadu; writing by MacDonald Dzirutwe;
editing by Diane Craft)
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