According to TY Bello - the photographer who took the photos, Jumoke ,27, stumbled on the shoot. This has landed her on the cover of sunday's edition of This Day Style Magazine.
Below is Jumoke's story as told by TY Bello on her instagram
'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 obvious fact that I sound weird and embarrassingly loud when I shoot. Yesterday, however I sat with filmmaker @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 on our set of our This Day Style shot for@tiniegram. The moment didnt 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 stsay. 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 Tinie's story....A
young beautiful hawker who could have served as a love interest of some sort.
Digitally I made the red 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 wasn't a model at all but simply stumbled on our set.I immediately began my search for her. If so many felt she was beautiful enough to be a model.. then maybe she was meant 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.'
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 facebook. A mallam led her to my studio that morning. She narrated her journey to Lagos... A hairstylist from Ire in Osun state but not making enough profit between she and her husband, a sliding door installer from same village, to take care of their two young children.
At the invitation of a distant relative who knew someone operating a bakery, she relocated to Lagos with her 14 month old daughter to give bread hawking a try, leaving her husband and older 5 year old behind. As I listened to her I wandered if the beauty I had seen on my screen as I edited my image was a fluke..well until she smiled... .I realized that I was wrong.. I had infact , underestimated the beauty of this 27 year old woman.
As always ..it was her eyes and of course her perfectly chiseled features that jumped out at you when she chuckled. This lady belonged in front of the camera. After a conversation with her husband telling him the story of our meeting, I decided I was going to photograph her that very afternoon..Within an hour Bimpe Onakoya, one of Nigeria's leading makeup artist and Zubby one of my favourite hairstylist were at my studio to work magic'
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