A documentary photographer, Joshua Akinrinola, has accused his mentor, Eti-Inyene Akpan, of refusing to release his camera lens valued at N1.1m.

PUNCH Metro gathered that Akpan, who is also a photographer, borrowed the lens to cover a church programme.

The 25-year-old said his mentor promised to return the device a few days after the event.

He lamented that Akpan had, however, refused to return the lens since July 2021, when he took it, adding that efforts to retrieve his property had proved abortive.

Akinrinola said, “The name of the lens is 70 to 200 F2.8 and it costs about N1.1m now. He (Akpan) has been my mentor since 2019. He reached out to me to borrow my lens for a conference in his church in Lagos.


https://punchng.com/lagos-photographer-mentor-trade-blame-over-n1m-camera-lens/

and the social media is not the place to report this abi

It is part of his mentorship ..

Apprenticeship doesn't give you the right to treat others as trash.

Fellow creatives, please be careful who you lend your gear to, make sure whoever wants to borrow your gear drops some sort of collateral.