Dressed for church, Kehinde Deborah and Taiwo Celestine (10) stand on a hill near Igbo-Ora, Nigeria.

Two of the 130 children living in an orphanage in Gwagwalada, Nigeria, where some of the children have lost a twin sibling or were rejected by their community after their mother died during childbirth—an event seen as bringing bad luck.

Kehinde Quadrat and Taiwo Badrat (17) stand side-by-side, as if shadows of each other, in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria.

Kehinde Azeem and Taiwo Kazeem (16) look at their reflections in natural rock pools outside Tapa, Nigeria.

Kehinde Temitope and Taiwo Oluwabori (15) stand in their school uniforms near a demolished house next door to their own home, in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria.

A girl holds up a mirror for her twin sister, as she swirls in a skirt, in the playground of an orphanage in Gwagwalada, near the Nigerian capital Abuja, Nigeria.

Kehinde Azeem and Taiwo Kazeem (16) reflect each other’s pose, on a hill outside Tapa as a storm looms, Nigeria.

Kehinde Adebayo and Taiwo Ayodele (46) near their home in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria.

Two schoolgirls in uniform stand on the lawn outside the principal’s office, in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria.

At an orphanage in Gwagwalada, Nigeria, a child plays behind a dress on a washing line, symbolically signifying children whose twin has died. Traditionally, if one twin dies the surviving sibling should not be portrayed without their ‘second half’. 

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