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Nigerian Photographer Takes Stunning Portraits Of Diverse African People
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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!
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.
exactly, the aim was not realism and portraits dont necessarily mean realistic photos. these clearly have a theme
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.
Only one wears this make up ;)
Several, including the male, are wearing metalic lipstick and there is more than one with garish metalic eyeshadow
You realise they are albino and that is their natural lash colour, except for the last lady, who is wearing pop art make up....
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.
Some would say, "true beauty" is something that can't be photographed as it is on the inside. Others would say it is only seen in perfection, while others would say beauty is reflected in imperfections. As the old maxim says, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.There is no such thing as "true beauty" as we each define it differently. Besides, it would be difficult to get an unretouched photo as you would have to not use a flash and remove any makeup from the subject. Also, as in painting, there are many styles of photography. Are Van Gogh's paintings any less beautiful because he didn't paint people as they look in real life?
I agree. But i have been accross Africa among these hard working women. They look like that. Ivory blackness i call it. Skin so perfevt and flawlwss that we think it is photoshopped.
I agree, there's something about the editing that makes the models' skin texture look off and for me that detracts a lot from their beauty.
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.
exactly, the aim was not realism and portraits dont necessarily mean realistic photos. these clearly have a theme
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.
Only one wears this make up ;)
Several, including the male, are wearing metalic lipstick and there is more than one with garish metalic eyeshadow
You realise they are albino and that is their natural lash colour, except for the last lady, who is wearing pop art make up....
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.
Some would say, "true beauty" is something that can't be photographed as it is on the inside. Others would say it is only seen in perfection, while others would say beauty is reflected in imperfections. As the old maxim says, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.There is no such thing as "true beauty" as we each define it differently. Besides, it would be difficult to get an unretouched photo as you would have to not use a flash and remove any makeup from the subject. Also, as in painting, there are many styles of photography. Are Van Gogh's paintings any less beautiful because he didn't paint people as they look in real life?
I agree. But i have been accross Africa among these hard working women. They look like that. Ivory blackness i call it. Skin so perfevt and flawlwss that we think it is photoshopped.
I agree, there's something about the editing that makes the models' skin texture look off and for me that detracts a lot from their beauty.