Profile


Eric Atie is a Nigerian documentary photographer and writer. He is an MFA poetry candidate at the University of Arizona, where he has served as a poetry editor for Sonora Review, and was named a 2025 Southwest Field Studies in Writing Fellow.

His work explores memory, movement, belonging and betweenness. He works across digital and film photography, and alternative experimental processing techniques. He is working on collections that brings together images and text as interdependent entities.



Education
University of Lagos
English
2015

University of Arizona
MFA, Creative Writing
2027



Group Shows
Group Exibition - Altered Surface
The Todd Walker Gallery
2025

Group Exibition - Experimental Photography Practices
The Todd Walker Gallery
2025

Group Exhibition
Decode Gallery
2024







Publications












                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   











                                                                                                                                   
Groundless : An Excerpt,  with Images from the Borderlands
(photo essay)
Southwest Field Studies in Writing  

Friends, Lets Go
(photo essay)
Lolwe Magazine

Night Songs
(poems)
African Writer Magazine

Love Stories from Africa, an anthology edited by Nonso Anyanwu with an Introduction by Helon Habila
in patnership with Brittle Paper

The Making of Thatch
(Wiki Loves Africa  photo essay winner for Rare or Threatened Traditional Ways of Working, 2018)
Wikimedia Commons

Home and Holes
(fiction)
Brittle Paper

This is the Part of Donald Duke’s Legacy that Has Refused to Die
(photo essay)
Ynaija

            Press
Eric Atie is a Fan of Life
Maroko Magazine,
by  Sammy ‘Sage’ Hassan
2023

Astonishing Photographs Celebrate People at Work Across Africa on Wikipedia
by Isla Haddow- Flood
Wiki Loves Africa
2018

Trends in the Literature of Young Nigerian Writers
by Chinaza Okolie
African Writer Magazine
2017



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