Work samples

  • Fade Catcher
    Fade Catcher
    Photographic montage: Flash photography, digital painting, collaging and scanning processes.
  • She is the Bull and Matador
    She is the Bull and Matador
    Photographic Montage: Flash photography, with digital painting, collaging and scanning.
  • Ajese Ojiji (Shadow boxing)
    Ajese Ojiji (Shadow boxing)
    Photographic Montage: Flash Photography and Digital Collage.
  • We paddle through fallen waters towards the song of new hope.
    We paddle through fallen waters towards the song of new hope.
    Photographic Montage: Flash photography with Digital collage and software editing processes.

About Chukwudumebi Chuks

            Chukwudumebi ‘Chuks’ Amadi-Emina is a Nigerian (Igbo & Yoruba) American contemporary photographer and digital & video artist, currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland. Chuks has a BFA in photography and graphic design and an MFA in photographic and electronic media from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Using Photography, collage/montage theory, and digital editing and painting skills and techniques, Chuks tells stories that revolve around the duality of… more

“Awọn itan pupa | Awọn okun dudu (Red Stories | Black Bodies)”

Awọn itan pupa | Awọn okun dudu (Red Stories | Black Bodies)” is an ongoing series of self | non-self-portraits that depict the physical, mental, and spiritual struggles that I have encountered through my transition from an African nation to America. With the use of iconography, body, and gestures I attempt to visualize changes, and experiences; that have happened, and still occur to me or black bodies around me. With the use of fabricated and appropriated African masks, I continue to expand the reach of the perspective by focusing on the topic of African/black bodies moving to White/unknown spaces, which have a history of displacing them.

  • We grow peace in our rage.
    We grow peace in our rage.

    Photographic Montage: Flash photography, scanned images, and Digital collage.

  • The great cry
    The great cry
    Photographic Montage: Flash photography and Digital processes.
  • The Watcher's Tale
    The Watcher's Tale
    Photographic Montage: Flash photography and Digital processes.
  • The heart of a woman stays multitasking.
    The heart of a woman stays multitasking.
    Photographic Montage: Flash photography and Digital processes.
  • Pass the controller brah!
    Pass the controller brah!
    Photographic Montage: Flash photography and Digital processes.
  • Gated Community: A Sentry’s Proof of Burden (2025)
    Gated Community: A Sentry’s Proof of Burden (2025)

    Photographic Montage: Photography, Digital Painting, Scanned pages from The Black Panther Coloring Book, & Digital Collage. Printed on Museo Silver Rag paper or Aluminum surface with a dye sublimation process.

  • Cosset & Succor (2023)
    Cosset & Succor (2023)

    Photographic Montage: Photography, Digital Painting, Scanned images, & Digital Collage. Printed on Museo Silver Rag paper or Aluminum surface with a dye sublimation process.