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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Look - I know she's gorgeous. But would she be really that much less gorgeous without the ton of work done in photoshop? Why is her natural beauty not enough?
I agree, it does look like a wig (on the other shots as well)
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She's beautiful. But I looked closer and saw that looks like a lacefront? Or maybe it's just me, but that doesn't look like her real hair.
It's not her own hair. I saw photos of her with her sisters. But this shot is stunning and dramatic.
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Don't get me wrong she's beautiful, but wasn't there a recent controversy around this?
There's a few billion people on this planet. No way could any one be labelled the "most beautiful" out of these billions. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This girl is very pretty but unfortunately it looks very artificial
I don't like the fact that they felt they had use photoshop on a little girl.... I think that sends the wrong message.
I don't see any Photoshop other than possibly some lighting. That's her hair and why can't people just be positive for a change? For God's sake she's gorgeous, and young what on earth would they need to photoshop?
Her eyes are clear and beautiful...like the secrets of the unexplored depths of nature
Are they the same girl? If you look closely, their faces seem a little different.
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!
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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