Perhaps you remember 5-year-old rising star Jare, 'the most beautiful girl in the world'? Well, the photographer behind her hauntingly beautiful portraits has blown up on the internet since then, with her other photography artworks being hailed for their unique aesthetic.
Her name is Bisola Mofeoluwa Bamuyiwa, owner of her own photography company BMB studio in Lagos, Nigeria. With a talent like hers, you would think she had studied studio photography all her life, but in fact, her only degree is in Project Management Technology from Lagos State University. Bamuyiwa said she was self-taught with the help of YouTube and photography mentors. In high-school she bought her first camera, documenting school parties, and became a professional photographer in 2012.
What Bamuyiwa's talent shows is that it takes a lot more than lessons to be an artist, you have to have a creative eye and boy she does. The photographer travels across Nigeria and Africa capturing the faces of the most exquisitely diverse African people you've ever seen. She told Bored Panda she is very selective when choosing her models and picks them based on the theme she wants to create in her beautiful photos: "Most times I look for the weakness and make it strong and inspirational."
While her work traditionally falls under the 'lifestyle, portrait, and wedding" categories, she has found another name for what she is - a beauty photographer. "I realized everyone is beautiful, I haven’t seen anything ugly unless some I have seen I ask God “why” lol. But then I take the ugly and I make the world see the beauty in it," she writes on her website. This perspective is something she hopes is passed on to her viewers, "I want people to see how I envision life in everything I photograph and give someone hope," she said.
As for Bamuyiwa's newfound fame, she told us she has been pleasantly shocked at the positive responses to her portrait photography works: "I am very surprised because I have handled a camera for many years and I never saw this coming too soon to me and I'm eternally grateful and willing to do more and better." We can't wait to see more of what this impressive photographer comes out with, scroll down below to see some of her dazzling portraits, and don't forget to upvote these beautiful people!
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He has honey blued eyes! Extremely beautiful I love when eyes have several colors. Looks like the person has connection with the elements the earth and the ocean with that eyes!
Eye colour is the greatest variation amongst us humans. In 1961 the U.N. gathered a team of genetic and anthropologist specialists to discover what differences we have as a species. Their findings were that race is a social construct. Culture (shared knowledge in a group) was an identifier. But our physiology was virtually identical. Skin colour barely rated. It was eye colour that was most unique.
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I have never seen eyes that colour before, almost golden. Amazing.
The range of possibilities from our shared set of genes is truly a thing of wonder and beauty - I'm awestruck!
He's one of the few Albino people in the world today. Extremely rare.
not that rare. there are 2 albinos (me included) on my dads side of the family, albino twin models in Brazil and a woman in Brazil with three kids with the same condition. lol i only named 7. but yes, it is rare
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He looks odd yellowish... I thougt albins, also in Africa, were more light pinkish or pure white. Is it a filter?
He also has pigment in his eye colour, there are a few ways albinism can affect how pigment is distributed. Here is an interesting read which includes both human and other animal variations : https://knowledgenuts.com/2016/02/05/the-difference-between-albinism-leucism-isabellinism/
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the pictures are beautiful and the models gorgeous but it looks like they are too over-retouched, too polished, almost unreal. The first time I saw the picture of the little girl I thought it was a computer generated image
I think the shots are really glamorous and dramatic. That's what the photographer was aiming for, not realism.
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Not to detract from the photographer's talent but some of these women would be more attractive without the metalic make up and unnatural white eyelashes.
True beauty are untouched photo's of any culture, race, gender, whatever. The amount of Photoshop (or any other retouching program) that is used here is, in my honest opinion, way to much.
I partially agree with your point, but let's not forget that some retouching and after work help the photos give us the vision the photographer had. Camera lenses themselves are a mechanical soulless tool, therefore not enough to express what the photographer saw and wanted to share with us.
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Gorgeous stuff, and I'm all for it. But almost all of these pics are of people who have conventionally attractive facial features. How is that really diverse?
Your photos are fantastic, especially being self taught. Also loved all the different looks and the makeup.
In the same vein, some of the photos look like they belong in a fashion mag - which isn't unique at all. I loved the rest.
Stunning pictures, but the use of the word "diverse" here doesn't work. There's nothing very diverse about them.
it made me really happy to see the albinos. im like them except i have pale blue eyes (and im here in america [first generation] eating chicken and $5 dollar nacho boxes from taco bell
I find these people to look extremely beautiful, stunning and handsome, but why should this be something special. These pictures should be titled, 'Beautiful people'. They should not be specified as a certain group of people. Other than the categorisation, these are magnificent pictures and people. p.s(I am of coloured background.
I am mixed race myself. I love his representation of a wide range of skin tones.
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the pictures are beautiful and the models gorgeous but it looks like they are too over-retouched, too polished, almost unreal. The first time I saw the picture of the little girl I thought it was a computer generated image
I think the shots are really glamorous and dramatic. That's what the photographer was aiming for, not realism.
Load More Replies... Not to detract from the photographer's talent but some of these women would be more attractive without the metalic make up and unnatural white eyelashes.
True beauty are untouched photo's of any culture, race, gender, whatever. The amount of Photoshop (or any other retouching program) that is used here is, in my honest opinion, way to much.
I partially agree with your point, but let's not forget that some retouching and after work help the photos give us the vision the photographer had. Camera lenses themselves are a mechanical soulless tool, therefore not enough to express what the photographer saw and wanted to share with us.
Load More Replies... Gorgeous stuff, and I'm all for it. But almost all of these pics are of people who have conventionally attractive facial features. How is that really diverse?
Your photos are fantastic, especially being self taught. Also loved all the different looks and the makeup.
In the same vein, some of the photos look like they belong in a fashion mag - which isn't unique at all. I loved the rest.
Stunning pictures, but the use of the word "diverse" here doesn't work. There's nothing very diverse about them.
it made me really happy to see the albinos. im like them except i have pale blue eyes (and im here in america [first generation] eating chicken and $5 dollar nacho boxes from taco bell
I find these people to look extremely beautiful, stunning and handsome, but why should this be something special. These pictures should be titled, 'Beautiful people'. They should not be specified as a certain group of people. Other than the categorisation, these are magnificent pictures and people. p.s(I am of coloured background.
I am mixed race myself. I love his representation of a wide range of skin tones.
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