Hakeem Salaam (@hspimages) is a Nigerian based photographer and is one of the most imaginative minds working the camera today. He began making images in his mind as a child and started capturing them in 1989 when he bought his first camera, a Pentax Obscura. The fascination with still images grew, but he remained in his darkroom making private photographs until 2001 when he began shooting real people with a Pentax SLR.
Hakeem, who studied Estate Management at the University of Lagos and did an executive programme at the Lagos Business School. He worked in estate firms and the Lagos State Government until March 2010 when he voluntarily retired to follow his heart. A widely published photographer, he is interested in documentary, travel, and landscape, portrait and fashion photography, and is the recipient of the Fashion Photographer of The Year Award. His work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. His most recent exhibition was at 2019 Ake Festival held at the Mike Adenuga Center, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Hakeem is widely traveled and has been involved in various photography projects, chief of which are: coffee-table book on Abuja, vitiligo portraits, Beautiful Nigeria (ongoing), Foreigners on Long Street, Cape Town, South Africa. He is a Canon Influencer and photography trainer.
