Tobi Isaac-Irein was born in Ibadan, Nigeria and came to Dublin when he was six years old. A photographer and digital artist, he uses a combination of photography and photoshop to tell stories and convey the world around him as he sees it.

Tobi has worked in film production and also with many music labels. His artwork has been published in magazine and online media platform Slight Motif. In 2020 he was awarded a Creative Ireland & Dublin City Council Diversity Commission. For this Public Art Commission curated by Gallery of Photography Ireland and presented in 2021, Tobi drew on his own creative community to focus on the stories that artists, originally from the African Diaspora, experience when growing up in Ireland.

The work explores how this new generation of artists have integrated their traditional upbringing, beliefs and ideas into Irish culture, and how this process has culminated in a hybrid cultural identity that is shaping their creative output and that of the wider community.