Welcome to a new week guys. I was supposed to continue my series on values but i feel compelled to write about thegirlinthetinietempahshoot. This a story of Destiny meets Grace and opportunity.
There is no way am going to recap the story better than TY Bello herself. Here is the story of OLAJUMOKE SUNDAY ORISAGUNA:
OLAJUMOKE SUNDAY ORISAGUNA:
I only recently started thinking it was important to make 'behind -the - scenes videos of my photography sessions . I hardly , however make time to go through the footages simply because I find it uncomfortable looking at my self on screen and for the obvious fact that I sound wierd and embarrassingly loud when I shoot .Yesterday how ever I sat with emaedosio as we combed through go-pro footages to see if we captured the very moment .Olajumoke a bread hawker from the Sabo market bakery , walked entirely by coincidence unto our set of our Thisday style shoot for tiniegram The moment didn't look special at all. If anything she stood there a little confused .Some people asking her to leave the set and others asking her to stay . I signaled if it was ok to take her photograph and she agreed and I pressed on my shutter so she could move ahead . My main subject of interest was the Okada driver that had slowed down just before she arrived .Okada riders have that cool lagos vibe and always happen to add a bit of swag to street portraits.
I was wrong to have paid her such little attention. Every frame with her in it was perfect .. I had found a second subject in the Tinnie's story. A young beautiful hawker who could have served as a love interest of some sort .Digitally I made the red in her dress match tiniegram sleeves to create a connection between them.
When the magazine came out last week and the images hit social media , I was proven right this girl split the limelight with the main subject effortlessly ..questions and comments started to fly : Was she a model ? How did we convince the model to balance all that bread on her head . The buzz about her multiplied when I clarified that she indeed wasn't a model at all but simply stumbled on our set. I immediately begone my search for her .If so many felt she was beautiful enough to be a model.. Then maybe she was mean to be one .I was going to find a way to make it happen .I had assistants leave word with people in the area we shot her and to my delight the very next day , she showed up at my studio
Aso kan na ni mo wo kiri Lana ' meaning it is the same dress i wore yesterday. Jumoke the 'model' the Internet had been searching for speaks almost no English. She explained how she had worn the exact outfit in our photograph the day before and someone showed her her own photograph on his phone from face book. A mallam led her to my studio that morning . She narrated her journey to lagos ...A hair stylist from Ire in Osun state but not making enough profit between she and her husband , a sliding door installer in from same village ,to care for their two young children .
This is heartwarming and worth sharing. May God help us to see beyond ourselves into the needs of others as Jesus commanded, amen.
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