Struggles | Photography on Canvas | 183 x 122 cm

Title: Struggles
Medium: Photography on Canvas
Size: 183 x 122 cm (customizable)
Artist: Ayo Adewunmi
Year: 2023

Description:
In Struggles, Ayo Adewunmi captures the raw resilience of youth weighed down by burdens beyond their years. A young boy pushes against the weight of brightly colored jerrycans, their primary hues standing in stark defiance against a blurred, muted world. The containers symbolize more than water — they embody survival, scarcity, and the invisible weight carried daily by countless children.

Every muscle on his frame, every furrow of determination on his face, speaks of a fight not against play or time, but against necessity. Behind him, others fade into the background, their steps indifferent, as though to echo how struggle often goes unseen, even when it is the loudest reality.

Through the interplay of color and shadow, Struggles transcends documentation. It is a meditation on endurance, dignity, and the quiet battles that define human existence in spaces where even childhood bends under the load of survival.