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Category Archives: Portraiture

Aisha, A pregnancy portrait

I’m about to do a whole load of travelling over the next couple of months and therefore see the need to update the blog now before I forget. During my last visit to Lagos on some wedding photography assignments, I had the pleasure of photographing one of my dearest friends and inspirations. I met Aisha…

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Wana, A Portrait

This week, I’m coming from shooting two back-to-back weekend wedding ceremonies in Lagos. Needless to say I’m pretty shattered…but the show must go on. Aside from getting prepared for the workshop event on December 30th (check out my previous blogpost for details), I’ve had some pretty interesting ideas for photo shoots arise which I am quite…

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Toyosi, A portrait – London

I’m blogging right from Lagos, Nigeria. This is usually very challenging as the internet service I have isn’t very good. For those of you familiar with dial-up connections, it’s very similar. The speeds can be really slow and the connections are inconsistent. So for instance, you could be uploading a large file overnight and later…

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Sappho’s Pregnancy Portrait

I’ve not been updating the blog because I started traveling and working again. It gets very challenging finding time to write something for a new post so please bear with me. I met Sappho about two years ago when she was about to get married to her now husband Daniel. I shot their engagement portraits…

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shauné – a portrait (test shoot) part 2

We got the opportunity to test out some more portraits with Shauné last week. She had a skirt made out of some ankara fabric that she bought on her trip to Nigeria last year. You have to admit the skirt looks amazing. It blended very well with the surrounding leaves in the park we used…

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